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I love the first day of the Maui. Chaminade almost always draws a ranked team, stays with them for a half, then gets smoked.

Now they are hanging in there with #13 Marquette. Down 5 early in the second half and playing hard.

25 years ago this week...it was the biggest upset in the history of American team sports, IMO. 77-72 against a #1 Virginia team that was no fluke: they ended up a #1 seed in the Mideast Region that year, although they were knocked off in the Sweet 16.

The Cinderella of Cinderellas.

Not sure I would consider a team that ended up getting a 1 seed beating a team that was a 1 seed at the time the greatest upset of all time. At the time...maybe. As it turned out, not so much.

Indy,

Maybe my sentence structure was poor, but Chaminade wasn't the team that ended up with the #1 seed in 1982. Or maybe they did. I wasn't following the NAIA tournament back then.

Chaminade is D-II now, and they were at that level when they beat Villanova a few years ago. They haven't ever been D-I.

3 point game with five minutes to play and then....pffffft.

I guess Chaminade gets some sort of 'bode since they don't have to go back to Milwaukee

Believe the Heupel wrote:Hmm.

How about Alaska-Anchorage knocking off Michigan the year the Wolverines won the NCAAs?

I still remember being at a UAA hockey game that night and the announcer saying "We have an update from Ann Arbor. We've checked, and this is not a mistake. Michigan 80, UAA 81, Final."

I don't think that was the actual final, but shit, it was near 20 years ago...

I knew Alaska-Anchorage had played giant-killer once. I was too lazy to look it up and see who it was.

Interesting...would never have guessed Michigan in '89. That Wolverines team - at the time, and all year long - was seen as something of an underachiever given their talent, IIRC. They ended up with a #3 seed and had a history of postseason flameouts. I'm pretty sure B10 Champ Illinois swept them that year, although Michigan got ultimate revenge in the Final Four.

I read somewhere that after Chaminade beat Virginia, some producer told ESPN's Tom Mees the score and Mees refused to read it on the air, convinced that he was being trolled.

FWIW, Chaminade also beat Lousiville in '83, but I'm not sure where, or if, the Cards were ranked.

Do they play decent hockey at UAA? I know they jump up to D-1 for that.

I did a bunch of a certain controlled substance with the dude who was like the backup center for Chaminade when they beat Virginia. Can't remember his name for the life of me. He was a ringer on a friend's rec-league team for about a game, until he blew up a knee (blew it up again, apparently).

That was quite the rec-league team, assembled after pulling a goose-egg for W's the year before. Bunch of D2 All-Americans, and the like -- coke-heads, every last one of them. Must have been 1986, since when Lenny Bias died, they all wore a black #32 on their jersies -- dudes took their cocaine pretty seriously, also evidenced by them bringing the "team mirror" to games.