Farleigh Incredible

The 16-seed Farleigh Dickinson Knights shocked the world Friday upsetting 1-seed Purdue Boilermakers, 63-58. FDU becomes the second 16-seed to pull an upset in NCAA tournament history joining UMBC. This upset may have been more improbable than UMBC’s upset of Virginia. Consider the following.

FDU is ranked 298 in Kenpom. They only made the tourney because the team which won their conference wasnt eligible. They’re one of the worst NCAA Tournament teams ever. This is truly a historic upset.

For reference, UMBC was 188 when they won as a 16 seed. https://t.co/q4KsVpkBZQ

— Bradley Smith (@Buckeye_Brad) March 18, 2023

True madness.

FDU wasn’t the only upset during the first two-days of the tournament. 15-seed Princeton stunned off 2-seed Arizona, 59-55, on Thursday and followed it up on Saturday by knocking off 8-seed Missouri. It’s the Tigers first Sweet 16 appearance since 1967.

14-seed Furman also joined the party by literally stunning Virginia on Thursday, 68-67. Virginia appeared to have the win wrapped up leading 67-65 with :07 seconds to go and then the Madness was unleashed!

IT'S OVER

FURMAN STUNS VIRGINIA 😱#MarchMadness @FurmanHoops pic.twitter.com/kjsMr15Jse

— NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) March 16, 2023

The Madness has created havoc in the pool too. Here are the teams picked to win the championship in this pool.

Several favorites are already out before the weekend is over.

We topped out at 143 brackets this year which would be increase of 20 from last year. That’s awesome!.

However the official count is TBD until all payments are received. The deadline is Wednesday. If you have not paid yet, please do so.

I will send out an update tomorrow wrapping up the Sunday action when we will have the Sweet 16.