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AND NCAA Tournament Almost here, with the playing of the conference tournament already in the course of Division I.
With March madness to us, that has developed us – which teams really cause “madness”? And which were the biggest underdogs who won from the perspective of the expansion of the point? Using our NCAA Tournament Database, we were able to find the 10 biggest underdogs for winning the tournament game since 1985 – which has expanded the big dance to 64 teams in the same year.
Each team on the list was at least 15 points in their match, while some were as many as 20+ dogs despite the victory. Let’s see:
10 biggest underdogs to win the NCAA tournament game, since 1985
Starting from the list, the 15th seed of the Golden Orlovi demolished Ohio State in 2 seeds in Circle 64, despite being underdog of 15 points. The game was an absolute thriller, and Oral Roberts pulled a 75-72 extension. At that time were only the ninth 15 seeds that ever won the game in the first round. They were led by Max Abmas and Kevin Obanor, who combined 59 points in anxiety. Oral Roberts would succeed until Sweet 16, losing two points in Arkansas in that circle.
Just three seasons ago, Princeton began magical running to Sweet 16 with a huge victory against Arizona in another 15 compared to 2 distress. It was the first Tigers’ victory since 1998, and Tosan Evbuomwan led with 15 points in the 59-55 victory. Arizona was a fresh victory in the Pac-12 tournament, but Princeton managed to keep them without results for the last 4:43 games. At that time, the third year in a row celebrated the number 15 in the first round.
15. Blue Raiders seeds lasted only to the second round at the 2016 NCAA Tournament, but their first round of 90-81 against the second seed of Michigan State, as underdogs in 17 points, had to be remembered. The Spartans just won the Big Ten tournament title and entered the tournament with a record 29-5. Four Blue Raiders scored 15+ points in the game, and Reggie Upshaw Jr. He led the way with the 21st medium tennessee only the eighth seed number 15, which overthrew the seed number 2 since the 64 team format began in 1985.
In just the second year of 64 team format, Little Rock knocked down the Notre Dame team in the first round of 23-5, becoming only the second 14-party who had ever knocked down a 3-foot. Michael Clarke, Myron Jackson and Pete Myers scored more than 20 points for Little Rock in a 90-83 victory. Incidentally, the first 14 seeds did this and at the 1986 NCAA tournament-the team that Cleveland overthrew Indiana as 6.5 points. Little Rock would lose to NC State in the next round.
Only the fourth 15 nose that ever overthrew the 2-hunger, Hampton dropped 11 points in this match before he finished on a 14-2 race. They kept Cyclones with no score for the last 7:01 games, and Tarvis Williams led the path with 16 points, 13 rebounds and six blocks. He also hit a shot to give Hampton a 6.9 second lead, which would eventually become a game at 58-57. The pirates would lose in Georgetown in the next round.
Each game to this point has decided to do one -core digits. But the victory of the first round of Coppin State over southern Karolin came to a whopping 13 points, making them the third 15 seeds to take off the 2-nest, and the first made it to a two-core digit. Antoine Brockington and Danny Singletary combined 42 points and eight stolen balls for eagles. They would lose to one point in Texas in 32 rounds.
No team on this list did further running in the tournament from St. Peter 2022’s team, and Shaheen Holloway orchestrated the magic ride to Elite 8. That ride began with a victory against Blue-Blood Kentucky in the 85-79 game. The peacocks became the tenth 15th nose in the first round of spread to 64 teams in 1985, and also in the opening round of the tournament at the beginning of the tournament, John Kalipari was handed over to Kentucky’s head coach. Holloway & Co. He would continue to lose in North Carolina in Elite 8, and to this day they are the only 15 seeds that have done so far in the tournament.
The first underdog of 20 points to win the NCAA tournament match since the 1985 expansion, the 15th-year-old Santa Clara won three points over Arizon in 64-61 BARN-BURNER. Steve Nash was the face of broncos, but he held a shot from the floor of 1 out of 7. Still, the future double NBA MVP has done enough to lead his team to victory-scoring with 10 points, seven rebounds and four assists while shooting 8-for-10 on free throws. They became only the other 15 nose that ever won the introductory round and continued to lose in Temple in 32 rounds.
Some believe that this is one of the greatest harassment in the entire history of the sport, since UMBC has become the first 16 seeds to overthrow 1 seed in the history of the NCAA tournament (since the 1985 expansion). To put it in a further context, entering the game-16 seeds was a whopping 0-135 against 1 seed. And to further illustrate how amazing this anxiety was, they were 2-154 entering the NCAA tournament 2025. What is even more special is that the game was not close, because UMBC won 74-54. In the next round, they lost to Kansas State with seven points. The edition of the 2018 tournament was also the first to ever see that each of the first four seeds in one region (south) does not make it sweet 16.
The 2012 NCAA tournament was special, because it was the first ever in which two 15 seeds won in 64 rounds in the same tournament. Lehigh overthrew Duke as a 12-point underdoge, but a real shoker came from the Norfolk-dok country knocked Missouri, despite being underdogs of 21.5 points. Led by the future NBA veteran Kyle O’quinn, the Spartans withdrew 86-84 in the thriller of the game in which 22 main changes are in full. Five starters for the North Dakota State made up all 86 points and fired 10-o-19 outside the arch (52.6%). In the next game, they lost in Florida.
Earlier, we mentioned that 16 seeds were 2-154 against 1 hunger of all time in the tournament, and that UMBC was the first team to achieve such a victory. So which team got another? In 2023, the Knights Fairleigh Dickinson made the unimaginable-stroke of 29-5 Purdue after the tournament barely made as the first four participants. Boilers manufacturers led a double national player of the year and a future choice of first round Zach Edywho ended the sixth year in the division and scoring (22.3 points per game) and the second in the jump (12.9 rebounds per game). While he was still finished with 21 points and 15 rebounds in the game, the shortest team in the entire division of that season managed to withdraw the victory of 63-58. The knights did not even win in their conference tournament that season, losing to Merrimack by one point in the title match. Since Merrimack could not participate in the tournament because of the rules of NCAA, which is banned from the post-season game college during the four-year transition from Division II, the FDU was therefore launched in action. Talk about exploiting opportunities.
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