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Originally Posted by BSPimpDude
This is where people get stupid about these one year wonders. Every once in a while youll have a team come out of nowhere and play like they are on another planet while a marquee team plays mediocre at best and the top team falls, like KU did last year against Bucknell. I would bet all of my bank account on the fact that KU and other big time schools would beat these smaller schools 49/50 times.
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Every once in a while? It happens every year, multiple times. Just in the Mo. Valley alone this year:
-Northern Iowa beat both Iowa and LSU, 1st place teams of two of the best conferences in America, as well as a very good ranked Bucknell team.
-Wichita State lost a 1 point heartbreaker to Illinois
-Creighton beat Nebraska (who is tied for 5th in the Big 12) by 26 POINTS
-Drake, who is 5-11 in the conference, lost @ Iowa and @ Boston College by a combined 8 points
-Indiana State beat an Indiana team early in the season that was up near the top 10-15 at the time before the whole coaching controversy started tearing the team down.
-Evansville beat Purdue, at Purdue
-Illinois State had Cincinnati within 6 points in the 2nd half before Cincy pulled away.
I mean those last few are just the bottom feeder teams, and they've been more than competitive if not beaten "major" teams. There's a reason their RPI is so high, it's not just an accident.