March Madness Bracket Seed Records

A BANG THE BOOK OM Your bookie won't know what hit him! MARCH MADNESS The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a single elimination tournament performed each spring in the United States, featuring 68 college basketbal teams, to determine the national championship of the major college basketball teams. In 1985 when the tournament was expanded to 64 teams. The number of times a #12 seed has beaten a #1 seed The #12 seed may a good pick for a or two , but they haven't proven able to get past the top-seeded team. The #12 seed is -8 all-time against the #1 seed. The number of times All Four #1 seeds reached the Final Four. It occurred in 2008 when UCLA, Kansas, Memphis, and North Carolina made it an all-chalk Final Four. The number of #6 seeds to win the NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP NC State upset Houston in 1983, and then Danny Manning and Kansas won it in 1988. The number of #5 seeds to reach the Final Game of the tournament. Florida did it in 2000 and Indiana did it in 2002, but both lost in the final game. The number of times the #11 seed has reached the Final Four.LSU did it in 1986. George Mason did it in 2006. VCU shocked the world by doing it last year. The record of the #11 seed against the #1 seed in their five meetings over the last 26 years. This is pretty 3-2 amazing when you consider the fact that the # 12 seed is 0-18 against the #1 seed during the same period. The #1 seed is a 59-6 dominating 59-6 #9 seed against the The #8 seed holds a minor 67-65 lead over the #9 seed These are almost always close games, 67-65 and it should come as no surprise that the two are almost dead even over the years. A BANG THE BOOKOM A BANGTHE BOOK OM Your bookie won't know what hit him! Your bookie won't know what hit him!