Unbelievable NCAA Tournament Blowouts That Shattered All Expectations—You Won’t Believe the Scores!
T-10. 46, VCU (88) vs. Akron (42), March 21, 2013
Hours before Syracuse blitzed Montana by 47 points in the 2013 NCAA Tournament, fifth-seeded VCU thumped Akron by 46 in an 88-42 beatdown. The Rams’ margin-of-victory is the largest by a team seeded lower than fourth. VCU scored 16 of the game’s first 20 points and closed the first half on a 16-3 run to head into halftime doubling up the Zips with a 50-25 lead. Shaka Smart’s press flummoxed Akron into 22 turnovers and the Rams limited the Zips to just 1-of-13 shooting from beyond the arc. VCU’s Troy Daniels, meanwhile, made six 3-pointers and tallied a game-high 23 points while Juvonte Reddic added 21 points on 9-of-12 shooting. Two years after stunning the nation by reaching the Final Four as an 11-seed, the Rams’ season ended in the second round with a 78-53 loss to fourth-seeded Michigan.

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