Wisconsin Kid Leads His Team to Unbelievable Upset of Kentucky

It was a night of March Madness the team from Michigan will never forget and one that Kentucky fans hope to erase from their memory quickly.

2 of the Biggest Upsets in NCAA Men's Basketball History

You can't have a bigger upset than a 16-seed beating a 1-seed and it just happened last year and only for the second time in tournament history.

In the First Round of the 2023 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, the top-seed Purdue Boilermakers ran into 16-seed Farleigh Dickinson who pulled off the historic win 63-58.

The only other time a 16 beat a 1-seed was in 2018 when the world learned what UMBC stood for. The University of Maryland-Baltimore County was the 16-seed and, at the time, was the first-ever to beat a top seed in the tournament when they took down the University of Virginia 63-58

Pewaukee, Wisconsin Native Helps Lead 14-seed Oakland Over 3-seed Kentucky

"We're not a Cinderella."

That was the statement of Pewaukee, Wisconsin's Jack Goehlke after he led his team to a victory in the First Round of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament in Pittsburgh on Thursday night (3/21).

Goehlke is a sixth-year graduate who plays for the Oakland Golden Grizzlies out of Michigan and in the biggest game of his life stepped up historically.

Number 3 is Jack Goehlke's number and he had a lot of them against the Kentucky Wildcats who were heavily favored to win the game. He went 10 for 20 from 3-point range and scored 32 points to lead the 14-seeded Oakland over 3-seed Kentucky 80 to 76.

The NCAA Men's Basketball tournament record for 3-pointers is 11 by Jeff Fryer in 1990, according to Detroit Free Press.

Goehlke was only one away from tying the record with his 10 made three-pointers, while Kentucky's entire team went 9 out of 27 from 3-point range.

Goehlke played for Pewaukee High School and then Division II Hillsdale College before transferring to Oakland as a graduate student. Oakland will now play the winner of 6-seed NC State and 11-seed Texas Tech when Jack, number 3, will attempt to jack up a lot more 3-pointers on Saturday in Pittsburgh.

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