User:Skarmory/NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament upsets

To anyone stumbling across this page, this is an overhaul of NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament upsets that I'm working on. Feel free to chip in if you want, but if you have any ideas for which games should be included/excluded that are potentially controversial, I'd like to talk it out on a talk page somewhere (the one for this page should work). I'm not going to focus on prose until after I finish the tables, but if anyone wants to take that on, be my guest. My main goal right now is to get the tables done and well-sourced – anything defined as an "upset" by the NCAA will be included, at the bare minimum.

My current plan is to include every seed mentioned in a previous section, starting with 16–11 winning in the round of 64, then adding 10–7 winning in the round of 32, and 6 seeds winning in the elite 8. I don't think it's possible to pull an official NCAA upset before those parameters, and 5 seeds and above can never pull off an official NCAA upset. The name will have to be changed, because this list will include teams seeded above others winning (e.g. an 11 over a 14), but it's probably better to do that than to wipe all trace of any "unofficial" upsets by teams after they've already pulled one to get there, at least in my view.

= NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament upsets (and advancements by lower-seeded teams?) =

Non-upsets (INCOMPLETE)
† Later vacated by the NCAA

7 seeds
INCOMPLETE

8 seeds
With how the bracket is set up, it is impossible for an 8 seed to face any seed higher than a 4 in the Sweet Sixteen, thus making an official upset in this round impossible.

Non-upset wins over higher seeded teams
† Later vacated by the NCAA

7 seeds
With how the bracket is set up, it is impossible for a 7 seed to face any seed higher than a 3 in the Sweet Sixteen, thus making an official upset in this round impossible.

Non-upset wins over higher seeded teams
† Later vacated by the NCAA

Non-upset wins over higher seeded teams
† Later vacated by the NCAA

6 seeds
The 1980 Purdue Boilermakers lost in the Final Four, but defeated 5 seed Iowa in the third-place game.