Biggest Upset Ever?

• slingshot4ever

  I still can't believe Kansas lost to TCU last night, prompting Self to call it the worst game since Naismith played a Wichita YMCA team. Kansas ranked top 5 and TCU with an RPI in the 220s.
  
  Can anyone think of a bigger upset in college basketball?
• gorocks99

  

  Chaminade over Virginia
• brutus161

  

  gorocks99;1384723 wrote:Chaminade over Virginia

  
  This
• Pick6

  

  TCU lost every big 12 game prior by 10+ points. yikes.
• fan_from_texas

  Ugly loss.
• se-alum

  

  Self simply got outcoached.
• gorocks99

  

  I mean, last night was bad. But Chaminade in 1982 was a school with 800 students. Total. They were NAIA for crying out loud.
  
  #1 Virginia had Ralph Sampson and Rick Carlisle, had beaten Georgetown (w/ Patrick Ewing) and Houston (from the Phi Slama Jama days) already that year.
  
  I'd draw a parallel to something else that has happened in college sports, but there can be no parallel drawn. It's in a class of its own.
• wildcats20

  

  Unless something crazy happens like a d 3 school beating a d 1, Chaminade over Virginia will be the biggest upset for all time.
• Iliketurtles

  

  gorocks99;1384723 wrote:Chaminade over Virginia

  This and I don't think we will ever see anything top it.
• ytownfootball

  

  1985 Title game was pretty big upset (Villanova over Georgetown), but over all biggest would be as mentioned above.
• reclegend22

  

  gorocks99;1384748 wrote:I mean, last night was bad. But Chaminade in 1982 was a school with 800 students. Total. They were NAIA for crying out loud.
  
  #1 Virginia had Ralph Sampson and Rick Carlisle, had beaten Georgetown (w/ Patrick Ewing) and Houston (from the Phi Slama Jama days) already that year.
  
  I'd draw a parallel to something else that has happened in college sports, but there can be no parallel drawn. It's in a class of its own.

  Appalachian State over Michigan in Ann Arbor? The Wolverines were top five and on the cover of Sports Illustrated to start the year.
• SportsAndLady

  

  The Big 12 is TOUGH on the road!!
  
  /B1G'd
• gorocks99

  

  reclegend22;1384770 wrote:Appalachian State over Michigan in Ann Arbor? The Wolverines were top five and on the cover of Sports Illustrated to start the year.

  
  Maybe if Appalachian State was a d2 or d3 school. Didn't Appy St go on to win the FCS title that year?
• reclegend22

  

  gorocks99;1384773 wrote:Maybe if Appalachian State was a d2 or d3 school. Didn't Appy St go on to win the FCS title that year?

  I honestly don't remember. Just thought I would throw that out there. I do remember there being (I believe) a handful of future NFL players on that team. So Appalachian State certainly wasn't entirely devoid of elite talent. Still, in Ann Arbor, it's probably the greatest upset in modern day college football.
• Tiger2003

  

  gorocks99;1384773 wrote:Maybe if Appalachian State was a d2 or d3 school. Didn't Appy St go on to win the FCS title that year?

  
  Yes they did go on to win the FCS title. They finished the season 13-2.
• Azubuike24

  

  Not even close. It was a conference game. The spread was TCU +16.5. Big upset, but not close to greatest ever.
  
  For instance, Norfolk State was a 21-point underdog last year against Missouri.
• Iliketurtles

  

  gorocks99;1384773 wrote:Maybe if Appalachian State was a d2 or d3 school. Didn't Appy St go on to win the FCS title that year?

  Yes they did and that year was their third straight D1AA title(Where they beat Delaware QB'd by Joe Flacco).
• Pick6

  

  There is a lot more disparity in football than basketball. Appy State-UM upset was huge! A mid major or two makes a run basically every year in the tourney. Chaminade beat Texas this year, and they are D2. You never hear of D1-AA beating a top 5 team.
• FatHobbit

  

  Pick6;1385254 wrote:You've only heard of D1-AA beating a top 5 team once.

  FIFY
• vball10set

  Not as big as the TCU or Chaminade upsets, but #11 seed VCU beating #1 seed Kansas in 2011 was pretty big as well, especially with a Final Four berth on the line.
• SportsAndLady

  

  vball10set;1385352 wrote:Not as big as the TCU or Chaminade upsets, but #11 seed VCU beating #1 seed Kansas in 2011 was pretty big as well, especially with a Final Four berth on the line.

  
  Not even in the same universe.
• queencitybuckeye

  I'd argue Chaminade beating a meedy-oaker Texas team this season is a bigger upset.
• vball10set

  SportsAndLady;1385367 wrote:Not even in the same universe.

  lol, I'll bet that one still haunts ya'
• ernest_t_bass

  

  This website, amirite?
• SportsAndLady

  

  vball10set;1385397 wrote:lol, I'll bet that one still haunts ya'

  No not really. That was a really good VCU team, and Josh Selby ruined that '11 KU team. That team overachieved big time. For Christs sake they had 2 white boys (Tyrel Reed and Brady Morningstar) in their starting lineup.