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.

Engles 'I sort of penciled this one down as an L ... I don't know what to tell you.'

— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) December 6, 2014