about 18 or 20 teams.
I wish and hope and think they will cuz NIU is ranked 91 and Tennessee is ranked 61 out of 119 teams
Michigan state beat uconn and North Carolina beat villanova
Richmond in 1991 Santa Clara in 1993 Coppin State in 1997 Hampton in 2001
The Indiana University Hoosiers won the NCAA basketball championship in 1984. They beat the No. 1 ranked team of the University of North Carolina.
Indiana beat Michigan, 86-68, in the 1976 NCAA Men's Championship game.
Yes! Tons of basketball teams do, but most of them get beat and usally drop down to a lower rank.
It happened in 2018 when the University of Maryland - Baltimore County (16th seed in the South) beat the University of Virginia (1st seed in the South) by a score of 74 - 54.
Back in 1970 teams did not make the NCAA tournament unless they won their conference title. In 1970, South Carolina played in the Atlantic Coast Conference. North Carolina State beat South Carolina in the ACC tournament so they won the bid to go to the NCAA Championship Tournament.
Gonzaga
Memphis beat Kansas in the 2009 NCAA Championship
They were the 6th ranked team in the nation before Brett Favre and the Southern Miss Golden Eagles beat them.