BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Upsetting teams in the NCAA tournament is nothing new for the twelfth-seeded Richmond Spiders, who knocked off the fifth-seeded Iowa Hawkeyes 67-63 on Thursday in this year's first big upset.
It was Richmond's ninth victory as a No. 12 seed or worse since seeding began in 1979.
No other team has more than four.
So when did the Spiders feel like they could pull the upset?
"Probably last Thursday [before the Spiders began their A10 Tournament run]," Richmond fifth-year guard Jacob Gilyard said. "At the end of the day, we knew we're a tough team to scout, the way we run our offense and how many older guys we have.