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2.2 (national) U.S. viewership: 4.37 million. On March 17, 2023, during the first round of the 2023 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, the Purdue University Boilermakers played a college basketball game against the Fairleigh Dickinson University (Fairleigh Dickinson, also FDU) Knights at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
The Retrievers were a 20.5-point underdog ahead of the game against Virginia and FDU was a 23.5-point underdog against the Boilermakers. It’s also the second straight tournament loss for Purdue ...
With its shocking, 63-58 win over Purdue, FDU became the second No. 16 seed in tournament history to knock off a No. 1 seed, joining UMBC in 2018. But FDU actually one-upped UMBC.
A motivated, talented Purdue team made a regular-season statement by beating the likes of Tennessee, Arizona, Marquette and Alabama in non-league play and by winning the Big Ten title by three games.
Fairleigh Dickinson Knights. The Fairleigh Dickinson Knights men's basketball is the NCAA Division I intercollegiate men's basketball program that represents Fairleigh Dickinson University in Hackensack, New Jersey. The school's team currently competes in the Northeast Conference (NEC) and plays their home games at the Bogota Savings Bank Center .
The 2022–23 Fairleigh Dickinson Knights men's basketball team represented Fairleigh Dickinson University in the 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.The Knights, led by first-year head coach Tobin Anderson, played their home games at the Rothman Center in Hackensack, New Jersey as members of the Northeast Conference.
Fairleigh Dickinson University is composed of four campuses, with two in New Jersey, one in Canada and one in England. With over 12,000 students total, it is the largest private school in New Jersey.
Fairleigh Dickinson advanced to the Round of 32, in which they faced the 9-seed Florida Atlantic Owls on March 19, 2023. The game was competitive throughout the majority of the game, and the Knights led throughout the first ten minutes of the second half. However, the Owls won the game 78–70, thus ending FDU's two-game Cinderella run.