UPSET????

It is now the month of March, which means one thing in the world of sports; IT’S TOURNAMENT TIME!!!! Along with the NCAA Tournament comes the overuse of two words, these words are “BUBBLE” and “UPSET.” “BUBBLE” gets enough talk and scrutiny, so today we are going to talk about the word “UPSET.” If the Belmont Bruins (quick , can a non-Belmont Alum please tell me where that school is located), a 15 seed out of that “powerhouse conference”– the Atlantic Sun, had beaten the most hated team in America – DUKE, that would have been an upset. San Diego over UConn is an upset. However, Davidson over Gonzaga is by no means an upset. They are both from relatively weak conferences and have about the same level of recruits. These aren’t exactly kids that had to make the tough choice between those two schools or Kentucky and UNC. And to be perfectly honest Davidson has a better team than Gonzaga (yes, I have watched both teams play prior to the tournament). With this in mind I will now define an upset.

From this point forward, an UPSET will be DEFINED AS:

When a 16 seed defeats a 1 seed in the NCAA tournament

Multi-directional State University (i.e Southwest Oklahoma State University or Southeast Missouri State University) defeats a top a 25 team

A school that NO ONE (who isn’t an alum) would know the location of (unless it is in the name of the school) defeats a program that has won a national championship in the last 10 years.

Any major conference school losing at home to Northwestern.

Any Division 2 or lower school defeating a major conference Division 1 school.

Memphis losing to anyone in Conference USA (especially at home).

Any team that is below .500 beating a top 5 team.

Any team beating another team for the first time in more than 50 tries.

A team with a roster full of kids that eat at McDonald’s defeats a team with a roster full of McDonald’s All-Americans.

Any team losing to another team that has had fewer Mc-Donald’s All-American recruits in their history than you have on your current roster.

A team that wears And 1 shoes and apparel beating a team that wears Nike, Reebok, or Adidas.

With the dilution of college basketball due to underclassmen going to the NBA and kids going to smaller schools to play earlier, nothing else qualifies as an upset. It’s just Vegas being wrong.