NCAA championships by opponents’ total seeds

[Palatine]

Every team has exactly the same route to the NC. Survive and Advance. UConn changed it up this year to Seek and Destroy.

 

[Zissou]

Because the tournament expanded to 64 teams at that point

1985 had 64 teams. Prior to ‘85 was fewer.

 

[Zissou]

I think that graphic is wrong.

1985 Villanova had played the toughest road if I remember.

Dayton - 9
Michigan - 1
Maryland - 5
UNC - 2
Memphis State - 2
Georgetown - 1

Total = 20

1985 had 64 teams. They probably started in 1986 internationally knowing Nova’s historic run.

 

[alexd]

I guess the argument is 1 seeds "deserve" an easy path, and higher seeds like us don't.

The argument gets a lot weaker when you consider that we beat everyone by 13 points or more and none of the games were competitive inside the last TV timeout.

"UConn was lucky they didn't have to face Kansas [who lost to a team we beat by 23], UCLA [who lost to a team we beat by 28], Houston [who lost to a team we beat by 13], or Bama [who lost to a team we beat by 17]."

Okay - to me "higher seed" (better seed) means a 1 or a 2 seed not an 8 or 9.
An 8 or 9 is a "lower" (worse) seed.

 

[Drame]

What about average victory margin divided by average opponent seed.

 

[uconnfan68]

I mean, the easy example is Purdue-FDU. Purdue wasn't the best team in the country, clearly, but they were better than FDU and would win that matchup 49 out of 50 times. Just so happens that this was the 1/50 of them.

We’re lucky Louisville wasn’t in our 2014 bracket, but stuff happens. They can still put up a banner if they need to.

 

[TheChamps990411]

I think this UConn fan was responding to a Villanova fan‘s dopey assertion. UConn twitter is all over stuff like that

Lol! That lame asf argument always gives me a good chuckle. 5 NATIONAL TITLES and every single one of them is as legit as any. Problem is when youre at the top people are going to take shots even if all they can come up with are blanks. Let me repeat 5 NATIONAL TITLES!!!