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0 -- Times Gonzaga had played a lower-seeded team in the NCAA tournament before Sunday, when the 12th-seeded Bulldogs defeated No. 13 seed Indiana State. Gonzaga had never worn its home whites in nine tournament games. |
Zach Gourde and the Bulldogs finally broke out the home whites for an NCAA tournament game.
AP
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1 -- Regions that still have the top four seeds remaining -- the Midwest with Illinois (1), Arizona (2), Mississippi (3) and Kansas (4). |
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2 -- Wins by Southern Cal in this year's tournament, matching the school's total for NCAA tournament victories since 1979. |
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3 -- Teams seeded 10th or higher that have made the Sweet 16: Georgetown (10), Temple (11), Gonzaga (12). The record is five, set in 1999 by Gonzaga (10), Purdue (10), Miami, Ohio (10), Southwest Missouri State (12) and Oklahoma (13). |
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4 -- Times the Tar Heels have failed to make the Sweet 16 since making it 13 years in a row from 1981-93. |
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5 -- Times in the past six years Cincinnati was ousted in the second round before beating Kent State on Saturday to advance to the Sweet 16. |
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6 -- Players who have scored at least 30 points in a tournament game so far, led by Marvin O'Connor's 37 for St. Joseph's against Stanford on Saturday. Only two of the six players' teams were victorious. |
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6 -- Teams with regular-season RPIs of 50 or worse won at least one game in the first two rounds: Play-in game winner Northwestern State (169), Hampton (132), Kent State (93), Indiana State (81), Gonzaga (75) and Utah State (59). Of the 15 teams with RPIs between 30 and 50, seven won at least one game. |
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7-1 -- Kansas' record in NCAA tournament games played in Dayton, Ohio, including two victories this year. |
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8 -- Sweet 16 appearances made by Maryland since 1979, including this year. The Terps have failed to reach the regional finals in their seven previous trips. |
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8-1 -- Combined records of the five Pac-10 teams in the tournament -- Stanford, Arizona, USC, UCLA and Cal. The conference was 4-4 in last year's tournament and 1-4 in 1999. |
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44-11 -- Combined record of No. 1 seeds in the regional semifinals since 1985. Of the 55 No. 1 seeds to reach the Sweet 16, 28 went on to the Final Four. |
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46 -- Combined margin of defeat by Syracuse in its past two tournament losses -- 87-58 to Kansas on Sunday and 75-58 to Michigan State in the Sweet 16 last year. |
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54 -- Points scored by Florida in a second-round loss to Temple on Sunday, matching the lowest output in head coach Billy Donovan's five years at the school. |
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56 -- Rebounds by Kansas compared to 23 for Syracuse on Sunday. The rebounding difference of 23 was the fifth-largest in tournament history. |
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98 -- Points allowed by UCLA in its two victories, the fewest by any Sweet 16 team.
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191 -- Points scored by Duke's Shane Battier 17 career NCAA tournament games, including 48 in this year's first two rounds. He needs 59 to reach Michigan's Jalen Rose for 20th on the all-time list. |
