10 Most Impressive National Title Runs

The Spartans only won one of the nine games by single digits and that was by nine against slowdown Wisconsin in the Big Ten semis. They played the toughest possible path for a 1-seed in the region and beat the 16/8/4/2 seeds by 27, 12, 17 and 11 points. Then they beat Wisconsin for a fourth time that season in the national semis by 12 and beat upstart Florida by 13 to win it all. The modest demerits: They beat the 7/6/4 seeds to win the Big Ten tourney and only beat one top-3 seed in the NCAAs.