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Caroline Darney

UMBC celebrates Fairleigh Dickinson’s massive upset of Purdue with series of tweets

No. 16 seed Fairleigh Dickinson’s win over No. 1 seed Purdue shocked the men’s college basketball world and turned the tournament bracket upside down. It also gave the UMBC Retrievers a friend.

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UMBC became the first men’s team to upset a No. 1 seed as a No. 16 seed when the Retrievers knocked off top-seed Virginia in 2018. It’s been a lonely five years and one day for UMBC, but now they have some well-deserved company. Back in 2018, the UMBC Twitter account — @UMBCAthletics — added 100,000 new followers as they gleefully (and respectfully) basked in the glory of making history.

Thursday night, they took to the internet again to celebrate alongside FDU.

They’re already planning a club with Fairleigh Dickinson and Harvard women’s basketball (which upset No. 1 Stanford in 1998).

They leave us with a nice reminder for the evening, though.

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