It’s been a week since Reggie Upshaw and the Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders took center stage in the sports world and turned almost everyone’s NCAA tournament bracket into scratch paper.
Sure, the second-round loss to Syracuse still stings, but for Upshaw, the former Baylor School star, and his teammates, the lasting images from that upset of Michigan State will last forever.
“It was one of the most amazing feelings I’ve had,” Upshaw said this week on “Press Row” on Chattanooga’s ESPN 105.1 FM. “The one thing probably all the reactions from people all over the country and demolished everyone’s brackets.”
Mission accomplished.
Michigan State was the second-most popular choice to win the tournament among the more than 13 million brackets filled out on ESPN.com.