The Fairleigh Dickinson University men's basketball program has successfully qualified for and competed in the prestigious NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament multiple times throughout its historic athletic tenure. Operating primarily as a competitive member of the Northeast Conference, the Knights have captured conference tournament championships that earned them automatic bids to March Madness. Most famously, the program achieved legendary national acclaim by pulling off an astonishing upset as a sixteen-seed, defeating the top-seeded Purdue Boilermakers to etch its name permanently into college basketball postseason history.