Creighton (10th) knocked off third-seeded Baylor (22nd) and will face 15 seed Princeton (81st). If you’re looking for Sweet 16 matchups that will not be as close, look to the South Region. Is this yet another tournament in which head coach Tom Izzo leads a team to the Final Four? It would be an incredible run if he did. If the Spartans win, TRACR likes how they match up with either Tennessee or the FAU Owls better than the Wildcats do. Michigan State has a higher chance of making it to the Final Four than Kansas State – 23.7% versus 17.9%. Kansas State, which got past Kentucky, is the underdog at 47.2%. Though the Spartans are four seeds lower than the Wildcats, TRACR projects this to be the closest game of the round. This region might have the most exciting Sweet 16 matchup in Michigan State versus Kansas State. 3, 45.3%) have a higher chance of winning its region. 6 in our TRACR rankings) has a 65.83% chance of beating Florida Atlantic (23rd) and a 42.3% chance of reaching the Final Four. The Purdue loss did not change much in terms of who would win the tourney, but the top two seeds losing in that region makes it a whole new game. With all this chaos, where does this leave us? Who is now most likely to win? Using TRACR, our Team Rating Adjusted for Conference and Roster, we have the projections. How many other times in both men’s and women’s NCAA Tournaments have at least two 1 seeds fell before the Sweet 16? That would be zero. Stanford was upset by eighth-seeded Ole Miss in the round of 32. Indiana was not the only 1 seed in the women’s tournament to go down. One could include the Huskies in this list, but since they were not during the same “round of (teams left)” title, I excluded them. Technically, these are both “Round 2” since the 2014 men’s tournament counted the First Four games solely as part of the first round. In 2014, Connecticut beat Saint Joseph’s in the round of 32 of the women’s tournament and the round of 64 in the men’s tournament. What’s crazy is that Miami beat Indiana in the same round, too – that has only happened two other times. How many times has a team lost to the same school in both the men’s and women’s tournament? It was the 10th time that it happened in NCAA Tournament history. The Hoosiers were upset as a 1 seed and were favorites to meet South Carolina in the national championship game. Then the women’s team lost in the round of 32 on Monday. This likely ended the careers for Jackson-Davis and teammate Jalen Hood-Schifino, who is likely headed to the NBA. The men’s team, led by an all-time player in Trayce Jackson-Davis, lost to Miami (FL) on Sunday. However, Sunday and Monday were arguably its worst days for college basketball in years. One team on this list is Indiana, mostly because of the rich history the school has had in the NCAA Tournament. Who will be the first team to lose to all 16 seeds in tournament history? We’ll have to wait years to find out, but Purdue may be on the best track to get there. But how many different seeds has Purdue lost to? The answer is 12 (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16) – one away from a tie for the most by any team.Īrizona, which lost to 15th-seeded Santa Clara in 1993, is tied for the most with 13 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15) and is the only team to have lost to two 15 seeds in tournament history. So Purdue is the only team to lose to both a 15th- and a 16th-seeded team. 16 UMBC in 2018 but has never lost to a 15 seed. Big yikes for a team that has not reached the Final Four since 1980. In the last three tournaments, Matt Painter’s Purdue Boilermakers have lost to a 16 seed in FDU, a 15 seed in Saint Peter’s and a 13 seed in North Texas. Let’s highlight how crazy the tournament has been with some research. The women’s NCAA Tournament has had its own surprises. Plus, it is not the only tournament that has been wild. Just when we thought that Furman would be the craziest upset of the tournament, we got more chaos.Īnd boy, it has been fun. We saw a 16 seed win for just the second time in tournament history – and Fairleigh Dickinson nearly made it to the Sweet 16 as well! We have 15th-seeded Princeton in the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16. Was this the craziest weekend in the history of March Madness?
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