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Who Is 16th Seed Fairleigh Dickinson?

The Knights defeated Purdue in one of the largest March Madness shocks.

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Fairleigh Dickinson University's men's basketball team went 4-22 last season.

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Three of its best players and its coach were competing in Division II

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The Northeast Conference Knights missed out on the N.C.A.A.

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And yet, Fairleigh Dickinson became just the second No

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16 seed ever to defeat a 1 in the men's tourney, defeating Purdue, 63-58, in the first round on Friday.

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"I love our guys—they're tough, they're gritty, they play their tails off," Fairleigh Dickinson's first-year coach Tobin Anderson said after the win.

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We shocked the world, and it couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of men, fans, my family, the whole thing.”

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After nine years at St. Thomas Aquinas College in Sparkill, N.Y., Anderson joined Fairleigh Dickinson in Teaneck.

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