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Where is Fairleigh Dickinson, the No. 16 seed with the historic upset of No. 1 Purdue?

Where is Fairleigh Dickinson, the No. 16 seed who just took down No. 1 seed Purdue?

Fairleigh Dickinson shocked the basketball world on Friday night by becoming only the second-ever No. 16 seed to take down a No. 1 seed in the NCAA men’s tournament.

The 63-58 victory over star-studded Purdue has plenty of people wondering who exactly Fairleigh Dickinson is and where they come from.

Well, the school is located in Hackensack, New Jersey. Fairleigh Dickinson describes itself as “the largest private university in New Jersey” and that it’s a “not-for-profit, nonsectarian, multicampus institution.”

Fairleigh Dickinson’s website says it was founded in 1942 and estimates it has 12,000-plus full-time and part-time students.

This is the school’s seventh appearance in the NCAA men’s tournament.

The Knights won a play-in game over fellow No. 16 seed Prairie View View A&M in 2019 before losing to No. 1 Gonzaga.

Fairleigh Dickinson now joins University of Maryland, Baltimore County as the second team to ever take down a No. 1 seed in the NCAA men’s tournament.

It’s history that will reverberate in New Jersey and beyond for years to come.

Fairleigh Dickinson coach Tobin Anderson was brilliant for correctly predicting a Purdue upset

HE CALLED HIS SHOT.

No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson pulled off perhaps the biggest upset in March Madness history, defeating No. 1 Purdue in the opening round of the NCAA tournament.

This victory will go down in history books for college basketball, as the No. 16 seeds were 1-150 against No. 1 seeds in the men’s tournament heading into this game. While it was huge for everyone, this looked was an especially historic win for first-year FDU head coach Tobin Anderson.

Before the game, fans saw a video of Anderson telling his team the more he had a chance to watch Purdue, the more he became convinced his team could beat them.

While the opposing players on Purdue found his comments disrespectful, now the FDU coach looks brilliant for boldly declaring such confidence:

Anderson is a former Division II coach who won six East Coast Conference titles at St. Thomas Aquinas College in New York between 2016 and 2022.

While he searched for a head coaching gig, he was told that he needed to get hired as an assistant coach for a Division I team before he was offered a head coaching vacancy.

But he is clearly used to shocking the world: He got the gig at FDU. While they had just four wind last season, he led them to the tournament during his first year on the job.

After the game, Anderson elaborated on why he said it:

“I just trust our guys, I have faith in our guys … We just have faith in what we do. 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, it made the wrong audience. But listen: I love our guys. They’re tough, they’re gritty, they play their tails off.”

FDU will play the winner of Memphis – Florida Atlantic. We’ll see if we can get another prediction from Anderson about how his team would stack up vs. either squad.

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Betting guide for the 2023 NCAA men’s tournament First Four games

Best bets for the NCAA men’s tournament First Four games.

The NCAA men’s field of 68 is finally set, which means it’s time to start filling out brackets beginning with the First Four games.

In the South Region, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi is playing Southeast Missouri St. for a chance to play 1-seed Alabama in the first round. The other 16-seed First Four game is between Texas Southern and Fairleigh Dickinson in the East, where Purdue is the 1 seed.

The 11-seed First Four games are between Mississippi State and Pittsburgh in the Midwest and Arizona State and Nevada in the West.

Bettors don’t just want to know who’s moving on, they want to know the best ways to make money. So below is my best bet for each matchup, and I also included my best guess for who will move on.

Watch: Chris Doherty Dunks on Fairleigh Dickinson

Chris Doherty closed a forgettable chapter by transferring out week after the Irish’s 91-66 win over Fairleigh Dickinson.

Chris Doherty closed a forgettable chapter in Notre Dame basketball by transferring out of the university a week after the Irish’s 91-66 win over Fairleigh Dickinson on Nov. 26. But he went out by tying a career high with four points and recording an offensive rebound. Check out his dunk with a minute left in the game in these highlights. Maybe he’ll look back on this with his kids one day: