It looked so much like the perfect cap to a completely befuddling day.

Team by team that simply needed to win to secure an NCAA tournament berth fell by the wayside. And when UMBC was down 8-1 in the second quarter, I IM'd one of the copy editors on our desk.

"[They're] getting reamed," I noted. "They ain't coming back from that."

Oops.

The Retrievers just wrapped up a remarkable 14-13 victory over Albany, punching their third straight NCAA tournament trip despite trailing 11-2 in the middle of the second quarter.

In the process, they avoided joining Georgetown, Princeton, Army and Drexel as teams that may well have played their way out of the tournament today.

A bracketology update is coming up.

--- Patrick Stevens