The junior, who helped his team upset top-seed Purdue in the NCAA tournament last year, scored his 1,000th career point in the win. But that's not the only reason he said he'll always remember the ...

The No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson Knights, the shortest team in Division I men's basketball, shocked the 7-foot-4 Zach Edey and No. 1 Purdue Boilermakers with a 63-58 victory in the first round of ...

The No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson Knights, the shortest team in Division I men's basketball, shocked the 7-foot-4 Zach Edey and No. 1 Purdue Boilermakers with a 63-58 victory in the first round of ...

Fairleigh Dickinson guard Grant Singleton (4) celebrates after a basket against Purdue in the second half of a first-round college basketball game in the men's NCAA Tournament in Columbus, Ohio ...

Fairleigh Dickinson became the second No. 16 seed in history to win an NCAA Tournament game, stunning top-seeded Purdue 63-58 behind 19 points from Sean Moore and a relentless, hustling ...

Purdue was a 23.5-point favorite against Fairleigh Dickinson, according to BetMGM. So FDU was a bigger long shot than UMBC, which was a 20.5-point underdog when it stunned Virginia in 2018.

Since then, Painter -- with the exception of the no-tournament covid-19 season in 2020 and the embarrassing loss to Fairleigh Dickinson in 2023 -- has found different ways to win.