Since PickHoops started, 18 out of 27 national champions were #1 seeds.PickHoops QuickFact
In twenty eight years, four #15 seeds have made it to the round of 16 (Florida Gulf Coast in 2013, Oral Roberts in 2021, St Peters in 2022, and Princeton in 2023).PickHoops QuickFact
Since PickHoops started, the national semifinals have featured three #1 seeds three times, in 1997, 1999, and 2015. This has only been surpassed once, in 2008, when all four #1 seeds advanced.PickHoops QuickFact
Since PickHoops was founded, the SEC has had six schools advance to the national semifinals (Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana State, Mississippi State, Auburn, and South Carolina).PickHoops QuickFact
In twenty eight years, a team seeded #9 or lower has advanced to the round of sixteen 68 times, 16 percent of the time.PickHoops QuickFact
Since 1996, the first-round game between the #8 and #9 seeded teams is split almost evenly. #8 leads 55-53, including 4 wins in 2015.PickHoops QuickFact
Since 1996, Kansas has 6 appearances in the national semifinals.PickHoops QuickFact
Since PickHoops started, the lowest average seeding in the national semifinals was in 2023, when the #4, #5, #5, and #9 advanced, making an average seeding of 5.75.PickHoops QuickFact
Since PickHoops was founded, Arizona has made the round of 16 fourteen times.PickHoops QuickFact
In twenty eight years, a #15 seed has upset a #2 seed 9 times. It happened twice in 2012.PickHoops QuickFact
In twenty eight years, Connecticut has 6 appearances in the national semifinals.PickHoops QuickFact
During PickHoops history, Duke has made the round of 16 eighteen times.PickHoops QuickFact
In twenty eight years, fourteen out of twenty seven national semifinals have had at least one Big East team.PickHoops QuickFact
Since PickHoops was founded, only twice has the first round in two regions gone according to seed in the same year (2000 and 2004).PickHoops QuickFact
In twenty eight years, Kansas has made the round of 16 sixteen times.PickHoops QuickFact
Since PickHoops started, only eleven times has a region's first round games gone according to seed (i.e. chalk).PickHoops QuickFact
During PickHoops history, three #3 seeds have won the championship (Syracuse in 2003, Florida in 2006 and UConn in 2011).
