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0-6 -- Maryland head coach Gary Williams' record in regional semifinals before the Terps defeated Georgetown and Stanford to reach the Final Four. Williams was 0-4 at Maryland and 0-2 at Boston College in Sweet 16 games. |
Jason Williams needs 70 points to set the scoring record for an NCAA tournament.
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.889 -- Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo's NCAA tournament winning percentage (16-2), the highest among active coaches. |
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1 -- Head coaches who have guided two different teams to the Elite Eight in back-to-back seasons -- Bill Self, who took Illinois this year after leading Tulsa to the regional final in 2000. |
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2 -- Free throws missed by Stanford's Ryan Mendez in the Cardinal's 87-73 regional final loss to Maryland. Mendez missed five free throws all season (out of 95 attempts) heading into that game. |
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4 -- No. 1 seeds that advanced to the Elite Eight this year, marking the third time since 1985 that all of the top seeds made it that far. The other two times were 1987 (UNLV, Indiana, Georgetown and North Carolina) and '93 (North Carolina, Indiana, Kentucky and Michigan). |
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5 -- Consecutive seasons the ACC has had a Final Four team, the nation's longest active streak. With Maryland and Duke, this is the first time the conference has had two Final Four teams since 1991 (Duke, North Carolina). This is the third year in a row that one conference has had more than one Final Four team. |
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7 -- Michigan State's margin of victory Sunday against Temple (69-62), ending the Spartans' streak of nine consecutive double-digit wins in the NCAA tournament. |
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8 -- Players who played at least 14 minutes for Maryland in its victory against Stanford on Saturday. The Cardinal used six players for at least 23 minutes each. |
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9 -- Number of times a school has advanced to the Final Four at least three years in a row, with Michigan State being the latest. The others were Duke (1988-92), Houston (1982-84), UCLA (1967-76), North Carolina (1967-69), Ohio State (1944-46 and 1960-62), Cincinnati (1959-63) and San Francisco (1955-57). |
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19 -- Combined Final Four appearances by this year's semifinalists prior to this season -- Duke (12), Michigan State (4), Arizona (3). This is Maryland's first Final Four trip. |
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25 -- Turnovers committed by Temple in its four NCAA tournament games. USC turned the ball over 27 times in one game, a second-round victory against Boston College. |
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26 -- Head coaches who have been to the Final Four at least three times, including three of the year's quartet -- Mike Krzyzewski (nine), Lute Olson (5) and Tom Izzo (3). |
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30-1 -- Duke's record in the East Region under Krzyzewski. |
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56 -- The NCAA tournament record for most free throws attempted, set by Arizona in its 87-81 victory against Illinois on Sunday. UTEP held the record previously with 55 attempts against Tulsa in 1985. |
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115 -- Points scored by Duke's Jason Williams in this year's tournament. The record for most points in an NCAA tournament is 184 (Glen Rice, Michigan, 1989). |
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121 -- 3-pointers attempted by Duke in the tournament so far, 44 shy of the record set by runner-up Arkansas in 1995. |
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133-100 -- Maryland's combined rebounding margin in its three games against Duke. The Blue Devils won two of those games, thanks in large part to their 32-16 edge in 3-pointers made. |
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1992 -- The last and only time the Final Four has been played at this year's site, the Metrodome. Duke won the national champion that year. |
