The University Of Maryland Baltimore County Retrievers made history on Friday night, by becoming the first ever 16 Seed to take down a 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Before this year - The University of Maryland - Baltimore County was best known for it's impressive competitive chess team.
But in a snap, that changed as Coach Ryan Odom lead his 16 seed, UMBC, to victory over the number one overall seed, Virginia.
Odom's own coach from high school, Howard West, talked with us from vacation saying he's proud of what his old Demons point guard pulled off.
"He deserves last night, he really does he has earned that. I am so happy for him I can't even express it," said West, who coached Odom at R.J. Reynolds.
Coach says Odom knew the game from an early age.
"Kind of a smallish kid, but he could play, had the IQ for basketball, could shoot it -- and was coachable. Very coachable," said West.
Of course, it helped too that Ryan Odom's dad is Dave Odom -- one of the most successful coaches in Wake Forest history.
Like many kids, he learned a lot from pops.
"Certainly just to be passionate, and be all for these kids. That is what he did his entire career. It was never about him, his focus was totally on his players and helping them become the best that they could be," said Ryan Odom in a press conference on Saturday afternoon.
West says those lessons always stuck with Ryan.
Even when he played for him in high school, Ryan wanted his teammates succeed.
So it was no shock to West, that Coach Odom didn't want the attention last night, either.
"True to form, as soon as the game is over with he is standing there on the court and somebody's getting ready to interview and he said it's all them. It's all them. That is exactly the way his dad was," said West.
For years Ryan might have been "Coach Odom's son," but it's clear this Coach Odom, that "smallish kid" from R.J. Reynolds high school, is making a big name for himself.
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