Biggest NCAA Tourney Upset?
March is getting madder by the minute, but everyone knows that the true craziness sets in when top seeds start tumbling in the NCAA tournament. So while we look forward to seeing how the mighty fall, we want to know what you think was the tourney's biggest upset.
By Desmond Bieler |
March 16, 2008; 8:00 PM ET
College Basketball
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Posted by: Roos | March 17, 2008 09:35 AM
march 16, 2001 - tiny hampton(15) over iowa state(2).
Posted by: shemma | March 17, 2008 11:42 AM
Duh, this is easy: Georgia over four teams in three days to win the SEC after winning only four league games all season.
Posted by: Mike | March 17, 2008 07:18 PM
NC State over Houston in the 1983 championship game.
Posted by: Terp/Wiz Lover | March 18, 2008 10:54 AM
mason over uconn
Posted by: deadskin | March 19, 2008 09:15 PM
George Mason making it to the Final Four in 2006.
Posted by: buttonz | March 19, 2008 09:43 PM
Villanova overe Georgetown, 1985
Mason over UConn, 2006
Posted by: | March 19, 2008 09:47 PM
Mason was ranked in the top 25 just before the tournament where they went to the Final 4. I'm as big a Mason fan as anyone, but that fact is often very overlooked.
Georgia's SEC tournament run definitely is up there.
Posted by: Todd H. | March 19, 2008 11:14 PM
bucknell over kansas (2005?)
bradley over kansas (2006?)
Grrrr
Posted by: mim | March 20, 2008 12:51 AM
Richmond over Syracuse (15 seed vs 2 seed) at College Park - 1991
Watched the Syracuse day-prior practice at Cole Field House, and though it might have been just a "shoot-around", the laissez faire (sp?) approach of Jim Boehiem (let's just roll out the balls to the guys for this 15 seed game) confirmed alot of my beliefs about him, even then.
Posted by: terpalum93 | March 20, 2008 05:50 AM
The second half of the Maryland-Duke Final Four game. That one still makes me upset.
Posted by: Leizear | March 20, 2008 07:09 AM
The second half of the Maryland-Duke Final Four game. That one still makes me upset.
Posted by: Leizear | March 20, 2008 07:09 AM
St Joes over DePaul in 1979
Posted by: Paul_in_KY | March 20, 2008 08:40 AM
Hampton over Iowa State, there only real scorer played almost the entire second half with four fouls
Posted by: hamptonalum | March 20, 2008 09:03 AM
Northern Iowa over Missouri-1990
St Joes over DePaul-1981
Southern over Georgia Tech-1993
Mason's run to Final 4-2006
Providence's run to Final 4-1987
Too many others to mention.
Posted by: | March 20, 2008 10:18 AM
LSU's run to Final 4-1986
Posted by: | March 20, 2008 10:19 AM
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Richmond over Syracuse (15 seed vs 2 seed) at College Park - 1991
Watched the Syracuse day-prior practice at Cole Field House, and though it might have been just a "shoot-around", the laissez faire (sp?) approach of Jim Boehiem (let's just roll out the balls to the guys for this 15 seed game) confirmed alot of my beliefs about him, even then.
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Great game.
My prediction bracket actually had Richmond getting past Syracuse in that first round match-up.
Posted by: | March 20, 2008 11:03 AM
Mount Saint Mary's over UNC tomorrow night!!!
Posted by: MSMGuy | March 20, 2008 11:57 AM
1. Cleveland State over Indiana
2. Hampton over Iowa State
3. Austin Peay over Illinois
Posted by: George Templeton | March 20, 2008 03:07 PM
Lebanon Valley over defending national champ Kentucky back in the 1950s.
Harvard (#16) over Stanford (#1) in the women's tournament in the late 1990s.
Posted by: David Kowalski | March 20, 2008 06:37 PM
Santa Clara over Arizona. I believe Steve Nash was just a freshman and didn't have a huge impact on the outcome.
Posted by: Mike Rawl | March 20, 2008 07:39 PM
Lucky Villanova VS Georgetown 85' Championship
Posted by: A.Clark | March 31, 2008 01:44 PM
Duke over undefeated UNLV
Posted by: Page | April 1, 2008 12:56 PM
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1. Princeton over UCLA
2. Richmond over Syracuse