The odds were heavily stacked against Fairleigh Dickinson.
That bulletin-board material certainly could have come back to haunt the head coach. But Anderson clearly wasn't intimidated by the tall task at hand, and the Knights wound up playing with the same kind of confidence their head coach displayed.
A swarming FDU defense forced Purdue into 16 turnovers and held Edey without a shot attempt for the final nine-plus minutes as the Knights secured aat Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio on Friday. They joined the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as the only 16-seeds to knock off a 1-seed. March Madness is quickly approaching. Here’s a look at the biggest upsets in NCAA men’s basketball tournament history.
"The speech is getting overblown," Anderson said after Friday's win."We just have faith in what we do and our guys are so tough and so competitive. I'll do a better job in this locker room speech than the last one. It was the right message, maybe the wrong audience. "But listen, I love our guys. They're tough, they're gritty, they play their tails off. I mean that's an unbelievable win. We just shocked the world."FDU coach Tobin Anderson gets emotional discussing the Knights' historic win over Purdue 🙌
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