One of the most ubiquitous commercials from the first weekend of the NCAA tournament was a Nike spot featuring Head Coach John Thompson III studying the tape of Georgetown’s loss to Villanova in the 1985 NCAA championship, spliced with footage of the logo of Appalachian State, which stunningly overcame the arrogant No.

Roy Hibbert sat on the bench, averting his eyes from the game before him, willing his mind elsewhere. Home. Egypt. Anywhere but here, in this excruciating moment. This was not how it was supposed to end.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Tenth-seeded Davidson ended Georgetown’s season with a 74-70 win in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

Georgetown (28-6) had a 38-27 lead at halftime and was up by as many as 17 with 17:52 remaining in the game, but Davidson sophomore guard Stephen Curry powered the Wildcats’ comeback with 25 points in the second half.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Ask junior forward Andrew Lovedale how Davidson, a small-conference power with a 27-6 record, has beaten opponents throughout the season, and he’ll tell you that these Wildcats are fearless.

It also doesn’t hurt that they have one of the nation’s best pure shooters and scorers in sophomore guard Stephen Curry.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Fellow 2-seed Duke got a scare from small-conference opponent Belmont last night, but the Hoyas had no such trouble today. Georgetown maintained a double-digit lead throughout the second half en route to a 66-47 victory over 15th-seeded UMBC in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

RALEIGH, N.C. — For those in search of madness, go look in a nuthouse. You won’t find it in this space. No Duke-Belmont ballistics here. Not a moment of Drake and Western Kentucky drama. A Toreros-Huskies upset special this was not. Not in a game pitting Georgetown against UMBC. Not in a bout between bulldog and not-so-golden retriever.

Retrievers take notice: according to Jessie Sapp, “There are no Cinderellas.”

Sapp, donning a t-shirt embossed with the slogan for Nike’s new ad campaign, insisted that his attire was a coincidence, and not a message to the Hoyas’ first round foe, but the upshot was unmistakable: Georgetown does not intend to make the University of Maryland at Baltimore County squad into a legend.

When the game ended, Dan Porterfield (CAS ’83) and his future wife, Karen Herrling (CAS ’84, LAW ’90), began the walk to M Street. They didn’t know what they’d do once they got there, but they went along, in part because everyone else was doing it.

After all, Georgetown had just won its first, and still only, NCAA basketball championship.

Finally, Metro area basketball fans will get the Georgetown-Maryland game they’ve been craving for over a decade. Except this matchup will pit the Hoyas against the Retrievers from Baltimore County, not the Terps from College Park.