1998 Harvard vs. Stanford women's basketball game
On March 14, 1998, during the first round of the 1998 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, the Stanford Cardinal of Stanford University played a college basketball game against the Harvard Crimson of Harvard University in Stanford, California. The Cardinal, seeded 1st in the West bracket and 1st overall in the NCAA Tournament, faced Harvard, seeded 16th in the West bracket and ranked 62nd overall.
The Crimson won the game 71–67, making it the first time in the history of college basketball, both men and women, that a 16-seed defeated a 1-seed. Two of Stanford's top players did not play in the game. To date, no other 16-seed in women's college basketball has achieved such a feat. Some have speculated that this feat will never be accomplished again in women's basketball. The feat was not accomplished by a men's college basketball program until 2018, when UMBC beat Virginia.
