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0 -- Combined NCAA championships by LSU, Purdue, Gonzaga, Syracuse, Iowa State, Florida, Seton Hall, Tennessee, Miami and Tulsa. Only six of this year's Sweet 16 have won a title. |
Stromile Swift led the LSU Tigers to their first Sweet 16 appearance in 13 years.
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.761 -- Duke's NCAA tournament winning percentage, the highest of any school that has played at least 20 tournament games.
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1 -- NCAA tournament wins by Miami before this season. The Hurricanes will be making their first Sweet 16 appearance. |
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2-18 -- Record of No. 5 seeds in regional semifinal games since 1985. Only Virginia (1989) and Mississippi State ('96) have advanced to the Elite Eight, with only the Bulldogs making it to the Final Four. |
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3 -- Teams that have made two trips to the Sweet 16 as a double-digit seed -- Louisiana State (1986, '87), Texas ('90 and '97) and Gonzaga ('99 and '00). |
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4 -- Teams in the Sweet 16 that won their conference tournaments -- Duke (ACC), Gonzaga (WCC), Iowa State (Big 12) and Michigan State (Big Ten). |
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5 -- Teams making back-to-back appearances in the Sweet 16 -- Duke, Florida, Gonzaga, Michigan State and Purdue. |
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7 -- NCAA tournament appearances in Florida history. The Gators have advanced to the Sweet 16 in four of those ('87, '94, '99 and '00) |
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9 -- Consecutive games won by Iowa State, the nation's longest active streak. |
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10 -- Sweet 16 appearances by Oklahoma State coach Eddie Sutton, entering this year. Sutton is the only coach to lead four different teams to the tournament. He has taken all four -- Creighton, Arkansas, Kentucky and Oklahoma State -- to a regional semifinal. |
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11 -- Lowest seed to win a regional semifinal game -- LSU in 1986 and Loyola Marymount in 1990. |
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12 -- Teams in the Sweet 16 that have played in the Final Four. Only Gonzaga, Tennessee, Miami and Tulsa have never advanced to the national semifinals. |
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17 -- Sweet 16 appearances made by North Carolina in the past 20 years, the most of any school. |
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19 -- Years since Tennessee last played in a regional semifinal game. The Vols lost to Virginia 62-48 in 1981. |
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31 -- Wins by both Tulsa and Iowa State so far this season, tied for tops in the nation. |
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39 -- Double-digit seeds to make the Sweet 16 since 1979. Tenth-seeded Gonzaga and Seton Hall joined the list this year. The double-digit seeds are 9-28 in the regional semifinal games. |
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52 -- Most points ever scored in a regional semifinal game. Notre Dame's Austin Carr lit up Kentucky in a 1970 Mideast Region semifinal game, but the Fighting Irish lost 109-99. |
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59 -- Years since Wisconsin won back-to-back tournament games. The Badgers won the national championship in 1941, when the tournament was only eight teams. |
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74-73 -- Score of the 1997 Midwest Regional semifinal between Iowa State and UCLA, won by the Bruins in overtime. The two schools will meet again Thursday in another Midwest Regional semifinal. |
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111 -- Tournament games played by North Carolina, second-most in history. Only Kentucky (121) has played more. |
