{"id":2339492,"date":"2026-03-21T01:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T01:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2339492"},"modified":"2026-03-21T01:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T01:49:09","slug":"rabid-announcers-for-underdog-team-in-march-madness-win-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/rabid-announcers-for-underdog-team-in-march-madness-win-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabid Announcers For Underdog Team In March Madness Win The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Jimmy Rosselli and Griffin Wright shed all impartiality in calling No. 12 seed High Point University\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/story\/_\/id\/48251956\/high-point-upsets-wisconsin-1st-round-ncaa-tournament\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"shocking 83-82 victory\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69bd5eb6e4b0284f9be02c4a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/story\/_\/id\/48251956\/high-point-upsets-wisconsin-1st-round-ncaa-tournament\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\">shocking 83-82 victory<\/a> over No. 5 Wisconsin in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/march-madness\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"NCAA Tournament\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69bd5eb6e4b0284f9be02c4a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/topic\/march-madness\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\">NCAA Tournament<\/a>\u2019s first round on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>But once you watch their unfettered excitement in the frantic last minute, you\u2019ll understand why.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Rosselli and Wright, the student-radio basketball broadcasters for the small college in North Carolina, lost their shit, to put it mildly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThrow on the glass slipper! It\u2019s a Cinderella story in Portland, Oregon!\u201d Rosselli yells in the clip below. \u201cFor the first time in program history, High Point breaks through. We\u2019ll see you in the round of 32! Oh, what a feeling!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The two posted a split screen of their reactions to what was happening on the court. It\u2019s been watched more than a million times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The broadcasting pair earned <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DHepGtdRxol\/\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"viral fame\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69bd5eb6e4b0284f9be02c4a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DHepGtdRxol\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"2\">viral fame<\/a> around this time last year, after High Point came from behind to win the Big South Championship final.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThis is not real, Jim! This is not real!\u201d Wright tells Rosselli.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t get more real than that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Rosselli and Griffin Wright shed all impartiality in calling No. 12 seed High Point University\u2019s shocking 83-82 victory over No. 5 Wisconsin in the NCAA Tournament\u2019s first round on Thursday. But once you watch their unfettered excitement in the frantic last minute, you\u2019ll understand why. Rosselli and Wright, the student-radio basketball broadcasters for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2339493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[405214,453239,452234],"class_list":["post-2339492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-college-basketball","tag-high-point-university","tag-march-madness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rabid-Announcers-For-Underdog-Team-In-March-Madness-Win-The.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339494,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339492\/revisions\/2339494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2339493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}