Favorite First-round Buzzer-Beating Upset

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1990 #14 Northern Iowa 74, #3 Missouri 71.

Maurice Newby had played well in the first half, been on the bench much of the second half, but he was in the game on the final possession and, with the clock running under five seconds, he launched a cold-blooded 25-footer from the left wing that banked in. The clock expired, and the University of Nothing Impossible (as one spectator sign called it) had beat a team that spent much of the season ranked in the top 5 in the nation.

The TV call of Newby's shot by Mike Patrick and Dan Bonner is also one of the best ever. You could hear both gasp when Newby put up the seemingly poor shot. Bonner, after the final horn noted that “he hasn't played in 10 minutes!”

This shows up on the clips of buzzer-beaters they air Thu and Fri morning before the tipoffs on CBS [or ESPN I forget which] but is left off most of the Top 10 and Top 20 lists, which is crazy.