Top 10 NCAA Tournament First Round Upsets

The bands. The buzzer-beaters. The unproductive offices. Must be the start of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. To mark this year's edition, we scoured the record books to select the 10 best first round upsets in tournament history

(14) Cleveland State 83, (3) Indiana 79, 1986

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Cleveland is not a state, but this school's unlikely triumph over Bob Knight's Hoosiers briefly made the school a household name. "Pressure is insidious," said Cleveland State coach Kevin Mackey of his team's "Run N' Stun" style. "It wears people down. I tell our players they play as hard as they can or they don't play." The Vikings stunned Indiana, and even advanced to the Sweet 16, where they fell to a Navy team that featured future NBA great David Robinson.

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