High Point postgame interview goes viral immediately after stunning upset
While much of America spent its afternoon looking up High Point, North Carolina on a map, the head coach whose team authored the biggest upset in the first round of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament was busy giving the interview of his life. Flynn Clayman’s 12th-seeded Panthers stunned the No. 5-seeded Wisconsin Badgers, 73-72, on March 19.
MORE: Ex-ESPN analyst, coach slams Jay Bilas immediately before March Madness Afterward, the 37-year-old head coach spoke in sound bites in a live interview amid a deafening crowd at the Moda Center in Portland. “It looks pretty obvious to me that high majors need to play mid-majors during the season, because they said we didn’t play nobody — we played somebody now,” Clayman said, nodding. Clayman wasn’t done.
“Feels unreal,” he said. “I know how good of a team we had. But nobody would play us, just like they wouldn’t play Miami-Ohio, but they got to play us in this tournament.
” The Panthers trailed the Badgers by 10 early in the game, but came back to cut their deficit to two by halftime. The The upset marked the second time Wisconsin has fallen to a lower-seeded team in the first round of the tournament in the last three years. High Point went 15-1 in the Big South Conference and 31-4 overall, ending the season on a 15-game winning streak.
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