No. 13 seed Furman hands UVA its latest early March exit
Associated PressORLANDO, Fla. — Kihei Clark sat in the locker room watching video on his phone, trying to figure out how Virginia could have avoided another early exit from the NCAA Tournament. “All year we’ve been saying that this team just knows how to win.. It’s an unbelievable moment,” Furman coach Bob Richey said. That’s tough.” Furman earned its first tournament berth since 1980 by beating Chattanooga for the Southern Conference title, capping a season-long quest to redeem itself after losing the league’s automatic berth to the Mocs in overtime on a 35-foot buzzer-beater last year. “I told Mike that we weren’t going to let today be his last time putting a jersey on, and I know if roles were reversed, the same thing would have happened,” Slawson said. “I had full belief that it was going in, and it did.” Reece Beekman’s deep 3-pointer at the buzzer bounced off the rim and Virginia was eliminated in the first round as the higher-seeded team for the third time in its past four NCAA tournaments.
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