Saturday was already going to be a busy morning for St. Paul Saints GM Derek Sharrer with single-game tickets going on sale. Then a couple of hours before the clock struck midnight a Cinderella team the Saints can certainly relate to crept into his life.
"I haven't heard, 'What were you thinking?' yet but I assume I will," Sharrer said.
It began not as a joke but as an attention grab. The Saints sent out a tweet last Monday promising $10,000 for one lucky retweet if a No. 16 seed could knock off a No. 1 – a feat that had never been done in the history of the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
Never gonna happen, right?
Then late Friday night Maryland-Baltimore County kept making three-pointers against Virginia.
The buzzer sounded on a 20-point upset for the ages, and Sharrer reached for the neatest pen.
"Absolutely crazy," Sharrer said of the game and the promotion. "I don't even know if you'd call this a mid-major – it's a low-major going up and beating one of the blue bloods and a top seed. We can relate a little bit to those guys being the small team in a big market and we're excited to pull a winner."
And excited to part with ten grand?
