13-Seed Hits Late Three To Pull Off First March Madness Upset

By Milo Taibi The NCAA Tournament is underway, and this year it took no time at all for brackets to get busted. The 13th-Seeded Furman Paladins trailed the 4th-Seeded Virginia Cavaliers 32-27 at halftime, but weren’t content to go out quietly. The Bob Richey-coached squad overcame a 50-38 deficit within the game’s final 11 minutes, eventually winning on a 3-pointer from J.P. Pegues. The sequence leading up to Pegues’ dagger isn’t one Virginia fans will soon forget. Virginia’s unfortunate sequence began with Kihei Clark, who found himself double-teamed by Furman defenders. Clark, possibly unawa…

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