Power outages for Power Five

[Cuyahoga Falls Eers]

Using the NCAA definition of a tournament upset – games won by teams seeded five or more spots below the favorite – there have been seven through the first two rounds: No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson 63, No. 1 Purdue 58

No. 15 Princeton 59, No. 2 Arizona 55

No. 15 Princeton 78, No. 7 Missouri 63

No. 13 Furman 68, No. 4 Virginia 67

No. 11 Pittsburgh 59, No. 6 Iowa State 41

No. 8 Arkansas 72, No. 1 Kansas 71

No. 7 Michigan State 69, No. 2 Marquette 60

Notice that 4 Power Five conferences are among those upset?

While the number could grow, this isn’t yet the most upset-heavy tournament in recent history; there were 14 such upsets in both the 2021 tournament.

 

[westsiderSJHS77]

Was there even a tournament in 2020?

Covid year?

 

[Cuyahoga Falls Eers]

Was there even a tournament in 2020?

Covid year?

Good catch. My error. Thanks for catching it.

 

[Rootmaster]

Good catch. My error. Thanks for catching it.

Glad you were never a real sportswriter with the constant stream of mistakes you make! And since most of your brain farts happen inside the intellectual property you steal from legitimate writers that's a hard thing to do. How many Bullshitter awards have you won?

 

[Butler-eer]

Glad you were never a real sportswriter with the constant stream of mistakes you make! And since most of your brain farts happen inside the intellectual property you steal from legitimate writers that's a hard thing to do. How many Bullshitter awards have you won?

And you have never made a keyboard error?

 

[Rootmaster]

And you have never made a keyboard error?

Plagiarism and factual errors are not the same as "keyboard errors". You must have really struggled in the four times you tried to graduate middle school.