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Sunday, June 13, 2010

College Basketball: Five Biggest Upsets of the 2009-10 Season

This college basketball season was jam-packed with enormous talent, surprises, and most importantly, competitiveness. I always like those mid-major teams playing the No.1 team in the nation. It's always seems like they give top-tier talent all they got. Or it's other's that will give the top teams something to remember. 

Whatever, size, shape or form, there were a lot of upsets this season. Here are the top five:


1. Northern Iowa defeats Kansas, 69-67


This was possibly the biggest upset the NCAA tournament has EVER seen. Northern Iowa, the team that nobody gave a chance. 


The Jayhawks came in as the No. 1 overall seed, so i could understand why nobody would predict any kind of struggle with a team like Northern Iowa. But that's where the old saying comes in at, "That's why we play the game." 


Ali Farokhmanesh or as some say, "The Jayhawk killer" took a gutsy shot with less than a minute left to play. 



After that, the game was history. That was a gut-check to the whole Jayhawk nation, including the whole college basketball family.


2. South Carolina Gamecocks defeats No. 1 Kentucky