Michigan Basketball Suffers Most Embarrassing Upset Loss in Years At the Hands of Unknown and Unaligned NJIT

And you thought Michigan football had a bad season. The school's basketball program was off to a 6-1 start and ranked No. 17 entering Saturday. But that's sure to change after the Wolverines fell in a huge, embarrassing upset at the hands of New Jersey Institute of Technology, 72-70 — in Ann Arbor, Michigan, no less.

How crazy of an upset was this? Lets look at some facts.

NJIT joined Division I in just 2007, and this was the first time they'd ever faced a ranked opponent, according to Sports Illustrated.

NJIT has only won 76 games since entering Division I. A big part of that was the 51-game losing streak the team went on from February 2007 to January 2009, after jumping up a division. That's almost two straight years of losing. For comparison, the Philadelphia 76ers last week narrowly missed making NBA history after starting the season 0-17. The 76ers hadn't won a game in 231 days. At one point, NJIT was going on two years.

Michigan came into the game a 24.5-point favorite, according to ESPN, after defeating Syracuse on Tuesday.

To win, NJIT had to shoot a ridiculous 64.7 percent from 3-point range and 58.7 percent from the floor overall.

NJIT is the only team (out of 350) in Division I basketball that plays an independent schedule, which means it is not aligned with a conference. Consider them the Notre Dame football of college hoops, only much, much worse.

And yet that was good enough to be better than Michigan on Saturday.