If Virginia falls to a 16-seed again, Twitter users plan to give random people money
After a sluggish start to its NCAA Tournament opener, No. 1-seeded Virginia was the talk of social media for a second consecutive year.
The Cavaliers became the first top-seed to lose to a 16-seed when UMBC knocked them out of the 2018 tournament.
Gardner-Webb led throughout the first half of Friday’s first-round game and took a 36-30 lead into halftime.
That led to some Twitter users to offer cash to anyone that retweeted their post, if history repeated itself for UVA when the game concludes later on.
Twitter user Eric Rosenthal offered $50 to 10 random people that retweeted his pinned tweet.
Originally, the cutoff time was before the second half began, but he later amended it to 4:30 p.m. EST.
There were other offers, too:
And there were funny reaction to what transpired in the first half:
