UnderdogMindset

#16 Fairleigh Dickinson vs #1 Purdue

Images

Fairleigh Dickinson vs. Purdue
Posted: Mar 21, 2023 Updated: Aug 29, 2023
CBB Lowest seed March Madness Worst Odds

In 2023, the Fairleigh Dickinson, FDU, Knights became the second-ever 16-seed to win a game in the NCAA Men's tournament; they became the first 16-seed who made it from the First Four to win. The Knights were a 23.5-point underdog against the Purdue Boilermakers. This victory was also the largest point-spread upset ever in the NCAA tournament.

Social Media

Quotes

If we played them 100 times, they’d probably beat us 99 times,... Play them 100 times, we have one win. But tonight’s the one we had to be unique, we had to be unorthodox. We had to make it tough on them, just be different.

Tobin Anderson
References

  • Who Is Fairleigh Dickinson, the No. 16 Seed That Beat Purdue?

    The men’s basketball team at Fairleigh Dickinson University, a private commuter school with a campus in Teaneck, N.J., went 4-22 last season. Three of its best players and its coach were competing in Division II. And the Knights, playing in the Northeast Conference, didn’t even win their conference tournament, a title they normally would have needed to make the N.C.A.A. tournament.

  • How FDU gave Purdue another New Jersey nightmare — and more March heartbreak

    The fairy tale came accompanied by the steady beat of chants from the stands. “FDU! . . . FDU! . . . FDU! . . .” Later, one of the winners would mention that noise, and how it added to the magic, and the awful storm forming above the heads of the Purdue Boilermakers.

  • Breaking down the historic upset of No. 16 FDU over No. 1 Purdue

    It took 33 years for a 16-seed to knock off a 1-seed: when UMBC beat Virginia in the 2018 NCAA tournament. It took only five years for a second 16-seed to do it, with Fairleigh Dickinson stunning the country by beating Purdue in the first round on Friday night 63-58.

  • 16-seed Fairleigh Dickinson stuns No. 1 Purdue at NCAA tourney

    Fairleigh Dickinson coach Tobin Anderson said he thought the cameras were off Wednesday in the locker room when he told his players what he really thought about their next opponent.

  • Fairleigh Dickinson pulls off historic NCAA tourney upset as 23.5-point underdog

    Fairleigh Dickinson pulled off the biggest NCAA tournament upset by point spread in 38 years, stunning No. 1 seed Purdue as a 23.5-point underdog Friday night to become the second men's 16-seed to win a game in the round of 64.

Similar