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An upset is a victory by an underdog team. In the context of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, a single-elimination tournament, this generally constitutes a lower seeded team defeating a higher-seeded (i.e., higher-ranked) team; a widely recognized upset is one performed by a team ranked substantially lower than its opponent.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's basketball tournament is a single-elimination tournament for men's college basketball teams in the United States. It determines the champion of Division I, the top level of play in the NCAA, [1] and the media often describes the winner as the national champion of college ...
Multiple teams from the same conference allowed; last regional third-place games played: 1976–77 21 11 32 1978 Teams seeded in separate at-large and automatic qualifier pools in 1978: 1979 23 17: 40: 24 6 40 Full seeding begins, second round added before regional semifinals: 1980 25: 48: 16 48 1981 22 26 Last national third-place game played ...
For a conference hailed as one of college basketball’s best entering the season, the SEC had a rough opening night. Four of the league’s teams suffered losses, each one against unranked opponents.
It consists of two games contested between the four lowest-ranked teams in the field (usually the four lowest-ranked conference champions), and two games contested between the four lowest-seeded "at-large" teams in the field, which determine the last four teams to qualify for the 64-team bracket that plays the first round.
Six of the top 11 teams in the country have now lost to unranked teams in the last 48 hours. UCF knocks off No. 3 Kansas, Mississippi State tops No. 5 Tennessee in latest wave of upsets Skip to ...
The 20-year-old also is now the fourth lowest-ranked player to beat a reigning world No. 1 at a Masters 1000 event. ... but was unable to do so in the sixth game when he was 0-40 down ...
The winners of these games advanced to the main bracket of the tournament. The top four teams outside of the ranking (commonly known as the "first four out" in pre-tournament analyses) acted as standbys in the event a school is forced to withdraw before the start of the tournament due to COVID-19 protocols.