(11-25-2020 12:47 PM)justinhub2003 Wrote: It’s embarrassing to schedule an NAIA team. Even more to be losing.
Perhaps, but there have been some good NAIA teams that have beaten nationally-ranked D1 teams.
For example, Chaminade (then an NAIA team) beat a #1 ranked D1 team in 1982.
"Chaminade followed up the win over the Cavaliers by beating Louisville in both 1983 and 1984, by scores of 83–72 and 67–65, showing that the Virginia game was not a one-game fluke for Chaminade. The second Louisville win was against a Cardinals team ranked 12th in a national poll. Three days after that game, the Silverswords defeated SMU, the third-ranked team in the country, on a buzzer-beating shot."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Virginia_vs._Chaminade_men%27s_basketball_game
Similarly, there have been many good D2 teams that have beaten a D1 teams.
Some examples of D2 teams beating D1 teams:
Syracuse lost to D2 Le Moyne in 2009. Syracuse went 30-5 and got to the sweet sixteen that year.
Augustana (SD) over Iowa
St. Thomas Aquinas College over St. Johns
Freed-Hardeman over Murray State
LSU-Alexandria defeated Southeastern (LA)
Cal State Monterey Bay over Utah State
https://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeBasketba..._1_upsets/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/51...naia_team/