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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.
Fairleigh Dickinson made NCAA tournament history in multiple ways Friday.. With its shocking, 63-58 win over Purdue, FDU became the second No. 16 seed in tournament history to knock off a No. 1 ...
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 ...
As Purdue has shed the label of March underachievers, the Boilermakers’ former tormentors from FDU have taken the time to catch snippets of games or to pull up box scores and highlights.
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 .
Indiana and Purdue played against each other in men's basketball for the first time on March 2, 1901. The two teams have played at least once a year since then, and until 2001 they usually met twice a year. Purdue leads the all-time series 126–92. Purdue has won the Big Ten Conference regular season title 26 times, and Indiana has won it 22.
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.