Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
2023: One No. 16 seed over a No. 1 seed and one No. 15 seed over a No. 2 seed 2014 produced the highest total seed differential in an NCAA Tournament, with 128 across all the rounds of play. That is, the sum of seed differences among the 19 games won by lower-seeded teams was 128.
At the start of this game, NCAA tournament No. 16 seeds were 1–150 all-time against No. 1 seeds since the tournament field expanded to 64 teams in 1985. [6] Five years prior to this game, the UMBC Retrievers became the first No. 16 seed to defeat a No. 1 seed, 74–54, over the Virginia Cavaliers.
The first 16 seed ever to win a game in an NCAA Division I basketball tournament was Harvard in 1998 against Stanford. According to an Associated Press retrospective on the 10th anniversary of the game in 2008, "The difference between the teams was much smaller than usual for a No. 1 and a 16 seed."
No. 1 seed Purdue defeated NC State 63-50 earlier Saturday at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. ... being the victim of the tournament’s second-ever 16-over-1 upset defeat – in emphatic ...
How likely are any of this year's No. 16 seeds to make NCAA tournament history and knock off a No. 1 seed? Not likely, not impossible.
UMBC wasn't the first 16 seed to win an NCAA tournament game. In 1998, the Harvard women's basketball team shocked Stanford 71-67 in the opening round. The Crimson remain the only women's team to ...
At the start of this game, NCAA tournament No. 16 seeds were 0–135 all-time against No. 1 seeds since the tournament field expanded to 64 teams in 1985. [8] Although there had been close games, such as the 1989 Georgetown vs. Princeton game, a No. 16 seed had never managed to hold a lead through the end of a game.
With just projected No. 1 seed Duke representing the conference in the top 16, the rankings reflect the committee’s perception of the ACC as several rungs below the SEC, Big 12 and Big Ten.