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| Date | March 17, 2023 | ||||||||||||
| Venue | Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio | ||||||||||||
| Favorite | Purdue by 23+1⁄2[1] | ||||||||||||
| Referees | Chris Beaver, Brian Dorsey, and Clarence Armstrong[2] | ||||||||||||
| Attendance | 19,564 | ||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||
| Network | TNT | ||||||||||||
| Announcers | Andrew Catalon, Steve Lappas, and Jamie Erdahl | ||||||||||||
| Nielsen Ratings | 2.2 (national) U.S. viewership: 4.37 million | ||||||||||||
On March 17, 2023, during the first round of the 2023 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, the Purdue University Boilermakers played a college basketball game against the Fairleigh Dickinson University (Fairleigh Dickinson, also FDU) Knights at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. The Boilermakers, who were seeded first in the East regional bracket and fourth overall in the NCAA tournament, faced the Knights, who were seeded 16th in the East regional bracket and 68th, or last, overall.
The Knights defeated the Boilermakers 63–58, becoming the first No. 16 seed out of the First Four to defeat a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, and the second 16-seed overall after UMBC's win over Virginia in 2018.[3][4] It is also just the third time a 16-seed has beaten a 1-seed in college basketball overall, after No. 16 seeded Harvard defeated overall No. 1 Stanford in the women's tournament twenty-five years earlier. As a result, the Knights made it to the round of 32 for the first time in school history and became the first Northeast Conference team to win in the round of 64.[5] With Purdue set as a 23+1⁄2-point favorite heading into the game, Fairleigh Dickinson's victory was the biggest upset in terms of point spread in NCAA tournament history. Purdue ended their season at 29–6, while Fairleigh Dickinson improved to 21–15.
- ^ Trotter, Jake. "16-seed Fairleigh Dickinson, a 23.5-point underdog, shocks No. 1 Purdue". ABC News. Archived from the original on March 18, 2023. Retrieved March 18, 2023.
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espnboxscorewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Camargo, Alberto (March 17, 2023). "No. 16 FDU shocks No. 1 Purdue in first round of March Madness". NCAA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. Archived from the original on March 18, 2023. Retrieved March 18, 2023.
- ^ Boone, Kyle (March 18, 2023). "Fairleigh Dickinson upsets Purdue as second 16 seed to defeat 1 seed in men's NCAA Tournament history". CBSSports.com. Archived from the original on March 18, 2023. Retrieved March 18, 2023.
- ^ "Knights of Columbus! FDU Shocks the World, Takes Down #1 Purdue in NCAA Tournament First Round". NortheastConference.org. March 17, 2023. Archived from the original on March 18, 2023. Retrieved March 18, 2023.