Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Hofstra vs. defending national champions

Holy crap I have a blog? *shakes off the dust and cobwebs that have accumulated, coughs*

Anyway, I have a longer post about shedding the awfulness of last year to come at some point, but with the Flying Dutchmen less than two hours away from upsetting sneakily athletic Who is Luke Hancock and defending national champion Louisville, I thought now would be a good time to look at how Hofstra's sports teams have fared when playing the defending national champ since moving to Division I.

This will be the 33rd time Hofstra faces a reigning national champ, including the 29th time during the regular season. And tonight will be the sixth time Hofstra wins! This is an interactive blog, one in which you are encouraged to do the math!

The first five Hofstra squads to knock off a defending national champ were the 1999 football team (wait, what, we had a football team?), the 2000 softball team and the 2003, 2004 and 2008 men's lacrosse teams. See below for the entire list of games in which Hofstra has faced a reigning national champion. Said champion is listed with the year in which it won the title while the following year's result in parentheses.
 
MEN’S BASKETBALL
’83 North Carolina State (L 82-56)

MEN’S LACROSSE
’71 Cornell (L 5-3)
’72 Virginia (L 12-5 in 1973 NCAAT)
’88 Syracuse (L 16-7)
’89 Syracuse (L 20-9)
’90 Syracuse (L 30-10)
’92 Princeton (L 9-6)
’00 Syracuse (L 18-13 in 2001 NCAAT)
’01 Princeton (L 12-4)
’02 Syracuse (W 8-6)
’05 Johns Hopkins (W 11-6)
’07 Johns Hopkins (W 8-7)

FOOTBALL
’98 UMass (W 27-14)
’99 Georgia Southern (L 48-20 in 2000 playoffs)
’01 Montana (L 21-0)
’03 Delaware (03) (L 20-19)
’04 James Madison (L 42-10)
’08 Richmond (L 47-0)

WRESTLING
’99 Iowa (L 34-3)
’00 Iowa (L 40-3)
’01 Minnesota (L 33-10)
’04 Oklahoma State (L 30-10)
’05 Oklahoma State (L 34-9)

WOMEN’S LACROSSE
’05 Northwestern (L 16-9)
’06 Northwestern (L 16-4)
’07 Northwestern (L 22-4)
’08 Northwestern (L 20-6)

SOFTBALL
’99 UCLA (W 10-5)
’05 Michigan (L 5-3)
’07 Arizona (L 10-0 in 2008 NCAAT)

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
’09 UConn (L 91-46)

FIELD HOCKEY
’89 North Carolina (L 8-0)

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