Here are the most extreme things to happen in college basketball between Friday, January 23rd and Thursday, January 29th\u2026<\/p>\n
Biggest upsets<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n 3) #308 Austin Peay 56, #168 Eastern Illinois 52 (12%), Sunday.<\/strong> It wasn\u2019t a big week for upsets across the country. Peay overcame a 13-point halftime deficit to stun EIU in Charleston. Eastern Illinois was off to a 6-0 start in OVC play but has since lost three in a row, following up this defeat with a 30-point catastrophe at Tennessee Martin (who is having a great season under first-year head coach Heath Schroyer).<\/p>\n 2) #180 Dartmouth 70, #58 Harvard 61 (12%), Saturday.<\/strong> The Ivy League starts its season later than any other league, but Dartmouth\u2019s win at Harvard officially make the league race interesting, even though we\u2019re only two games into the schedule. This was Harvard\u2019s third home loss in league play in the past five seasons. A 41-15 run by the Big Green in the second half was decisive. Dartmouth\u2019s best ranking since 2002 was last season\u2019s finish at #236. Currently, they’re #151. <\/p>\n 1) #346 Maine 70, #236 Hartford 61 (5%), Sunday.<\/strong> Maine picked up its second win of the season in Hartford with help from the Hawks\u2019 5-of-32 performance from 3-point range. The Black Bears\u2019 point guard Kevin Little went 5-of-10 from long range all by himself to engineer the upset.<\/p>\n Least likely comebacks<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n 3) #247 Loyola Marymount 70, #133 San Francisco 69 (1.2%), Saturday.<\/strong> Things haven\u2019t gone smoothly in Mike Dunlap\u2019s first full season as a D-I head coach. It looked like the Lions were on their way to a 1-8 mark in WCC play when they trailed USF 47-30 with 17:51 to go at War Memorial Gym. But they came all the way back, finishing the deal on an Evan Payne put-back at the buzzer.<\/p>\n 2) #32 Davidson 80, #190 George Mason 73 (OT) (1.4%), Saturday.<\/strong> Davidson still owns the best offensive performance against Virginia this season and they haven\u2019t been held to less than 0.98 points per possession in rolling to a 14-4 record. However, they almost suffered a major upset at the hands of George Mason. The Wildcats trailed by six with 21 seconds left, but got 3-pointers from Oskar Michelsen and Brian Sullivan and two missed free throws from Mason\u2019s Jalen Jenkins to force overtime. Davidson is now 2-0 without its stud point guard Jack Gibbs, who\u2019s had a breakout season as a sophomore but nursing a meniscus injury at the moment. <\/p>\n