Past tourneys and how many 5 seeds have won

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Fine Vol

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I wonder how many have been won by 1 seeds?

Is it a stretch for a five to win it all or will it be an attainable task?
 
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A streach?? I'm assuming you meant stretch.. Yes, the '85 Villanova squad did it over 20 years ago.(An eighth seed at the time)
 
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cotton said:
NC State's run was pretty impressive as well, I was just working from memory on seeds 5 or lower to win the thing.
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I was just thinking that. I gave them little or no chance of beating Olajuwon and Drexler and the Phi Slamma Jamma' routine at the time. Although I can't recall what NC State was seeded at the time..
 
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That Arizona team in '97 was a 4 seed, though basically the same as UT's road would be... Arizona did it the hard way though, knocking out 3 1 seeds along the way. Usually at least one of those 1 seeds are knocked out at some point.
 
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SyracuseVol said:
That Arizona team in '97 was a 4 seed, though basically the same as UT's road would be... Arizona did it the hard way though, knocking out 3 1 seeds along the way. Usually at least one of those 1 seeds are knocked out at some point.
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why was i thinking they were a 6? good catch
 
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Yup, but Olsen still has had an unprecedented amount of first round casualties over the course of his tenure.. That '97 team was a special occasion for the folks in Tucson.
 
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MphsBlues said:
I was just thinking that. I gave them little or no chance of beating Olajuwon and Drexler and the Phi Slamma Jamma' routine at the time. Although I can't recall what NC State was seeded at the time..
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It wasn't just the championship game. NC St was 17-10 in the regular season and NIT bound until they inexplicably won the ACC tourney over Michael Jordan's UNC and Ralph Sampson's UVA just to get in. They had to win in OT against Pepperdine, upset UNLV, then beat UVA and Dominique Wilkins' Georgia team before they got to Akeem and Clyde.

BigPapaVol said:
Arizona was the most recent 6 to get it done.
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Arizona was a 4 in '97.
 
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cotton said:
It wasn't just the championship game. NC St was 17-10 in the regular season and NIT bound until they inexplicably won the ACC tourney over Michael Jordan's UNC and Ralph Sampson's UVA just to get in. They had to win in OT against Pepperdine, upset UNLV, then beat UVA and Dominique Wilkins' Georgia team before they got to Akeem and Clyde.



Arizona was a 4 in '97.
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Dominique Wilkins was not on the '83 Georgia team.
 
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cotton said:
It wasn't just the championship game. NC St was 17-10 in the regular season and NIT bound until they inexplicably won the ACC tourney over Michael Jordan's UNC and Ralph Sampson's UVA just to get in. They had to win in OT against Pepperdine, upset UNLV, then beat UVA and Dominique Wilkins' Georgia team before they got to Akeem and Clyde.



Arizona was a 4 in '97.
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Already been said...
 
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Yep...Syracuse was a 3.

I was thinking of Indiana in 2002...they were a 5, but couldn't get past Maryland.
 
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hatvol96 said:
Dominique Wilkins was not on the '83 Georgia team.
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You are correct. He left in '82.

Fine Vol said:
I wonder how many have been won by 1 seeds?
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Back to the original question, no 5 seed has ever won the tournament. Florida in 2000, and Indiana in 2002 lost in the final game as 5 seeds. By my count, 14 #1 seeds have won the championship since the tourney was expanded in '79. Villinova as an 8 in '85 and NC St and Arizona as 6s in '83 and '97 are the only seeds lower than 4 to win the tournament.
 
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GO VOLS LET'S MAKE HISTORY:crazy:

Oh sorry, I meant just win 2 then everything else is HISTORIC.
 
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cotton said:
You are correct. He left in '82.



Back to the original question, no 5 seed has ever won the tournament. Florida in 2000, and Indiana in 2002 lost in the final game as 5 seeds. By my count, 14 #1 seeds have won the championship since the tourney was expanded in '79. Villinova as an 8 in '85 and NC St and Arizona as 6s in '83 and '97 are the only seeds lower than 4 to win the tournament.
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Didn't you just correct me on this?
 
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