FDU defies odds in historic NCAA tourney upset
Fairleigh Dickinson pulled off the biggest NCAA tournament upset point spread-wise in 38 years, stunning No. 1 seed Purdue as a 23.5-point underdog on Friday night to end up being the 2nd 16-seed to win a game in the round of 64.
FDU, which was 25-1 to beat Purdue straight-up at some sportsbooks, had longer odds to win the game in Columbus, Ohio, than the Boilermakers did to win the whole competition. Purdue was around 10-1 to win the entire thing.Some wagerers took their shot on the Cinderella Knights, who just made the competition since Northeast Conference champion Merrimack was disqualified while transitioning from Division II.Editor’s Picks
2 Associated The South Point sportsbook in Las Vegas reported taking a$ 2,100 money-line bet on FDU at 25-1 chances. The bet paid a net $52,500.
“That game hurt,” South Point sportsbook director Chris Andrews informed ESPN.A wagerer with FanDuel had $2,000 on the Knights at 20-1, and Caesars Sportsbook reported a gambler in Indiana put $500 on FDU at 20-1. The bulk of the money, however, was on the preferred Boilermakers. At sportsbook PointsBet, 91% of the money bank on the game’s cash line was on Purdue.Purdue was listed around -10,000 to beat FDU straight-up, indicating wagerers had to run the risk of$10,000 to win a net $100. The largest money-line bets on Purdue at Caesars Sportsbook were in the four-figure range, a company spokesperson said.The Boilermakers lost to a double-digit seed for the 3rd straight NCAA tournament and took down the handful of remaining best brackets out of the 20,056,652 that were entered into ESPN’s Tournament Difficulty this year.Year Won Lost Spread 2023 16 Fairleigh Dickinson 1 Purdue +23.5 2012 15 Norfolk
| State 2 Missouri +21.5 2018 16 UMBC | 1 Virginia +20.5 1993 15 Santa Clara 2 Arizona +20 2022 15 Saint Peter’s 2 Kentucky +18.5 1997 15 Coppin State 2 South Carolina | ||||||
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| +18.5 2001 | 15 Hampton 2 Iowa State +17.5 1986 14 Little Rock 3 Notre | Dame | +17.5 2016 15 Middle Tenn 2 Michigan | ||||
| State +17 2023 15 Princeton 2 Arizona | +16 | ||||||
| 2021 | 15 Oral Roberts 2 Ohio State +15– ESPN Stats & Info Getting in Friday | , groups favored by | 23 points or more were 176-1 straight-up this season | , according to ESPN Stats & Details. In December, | |||
| Eastern Illinois beat Iowa as a | 31.5-point underdog, the biggest regular-season upset | point spread-wise in the previous thirty years. Three | months later, Fairleigh Dickinson | followed up with biggest upset in the tournament considering that it expanded | to 64 | teams in 1985.”Amazing upset, “stated | John Murray, executive director |
| of the SuperBook in Las Vegas, |
including that his shop suffered a”small” loss on the game.Bettors in New Jersey weren’t enabled to participate the action on Fairleigh Dickinson, though. New Jersey policies restrict sportsbooks from offering bets on games including in-state schools. Fairleigh Dickinson is located in Hackensack, New Jersey.