Ranking the eight No. 15 vs No. 2 upsets in March Madness history

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4. Santa Clara: 64, Arizona: 61 (1993)

The Arizona Wildcats lost only four games in the 1993 regular season under Lute Olsen with a young star point guard named Damon Stoudamire leading the way. Stoudamire had shown flashes of the talent that would make him a touted NBA prospect later on, but in the First Round of March Madness, Stoudamire and the Wildcats ran into another future NBA star, though one that no one had ever heard of before from a school with the same rap: Steve Nash and the Santa Clara Broncos.

Anyone who has been following basketball over the past two decades, especially in the NBA, can tell you just how revolutionary and incredible Steve Nash is as a player, but in a less technologically friendly time in 1993, he was an unknown, seemingly slight point guard playing for a small school. When he was put up against Arizona and Stoudamire, though, he showed that he was much more than that.

Nash and the Broncos were down by two points going into halftime, but only after blowing a 12-point lead by being on the wrong end of a 14-0 run. However, they stayed in the thick of it coming out of the locker room and, despite some free throw struggles late in the game, were able to hold off the Wildcats and ultimately became just the second No. 15 seed to beat a No. 2 seed at the time.

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