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The Big Dance Thread

Farleigh is the shortest team in the tournament.

If you watched the game from the start, you know that FDU's gameplan was to double team Edy (Purdue's All-American center, tallest player in the tournament) and let Purdue try to beat them with 3's. Great plan. Purdue struggled all game from three.
Got out hustled, big time. Purdue played like they expected to win just by putting on the uniform
 








"Don't try to figure this out. Don't search for anything that predicted this. Nothing predicted this. Prior to its 63-58 win over Purdue -- just the second time a 16-seed has won a game in men's NCAA tournament history -- FDU was 298th on KenPom. 298th. This is a team that had 12 -- 12! -- losses to sub-200 KenPom teams. This is a team that shouldn't even be in the tournament.

And then, the most amazing upset in NCAA history happened. (Sorry, UMBC.) Zach Edey finished 7-for-11 with 21 points. But Tobin Anderson strategized to limit the projected Wooden Award winner's touches by sending every person who had ever attended FDU at the 7-foot-4 star. The rest of Purdue's team finished 12-for-42. The gamble worked, and now Sean Moore (19 points) and the Knights will be legends forever."

 





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