With The Big Dance quickly approaching...here are 10 fun facts about the biggest tournament in sports, the NCAA Division 1 Men's Basketball Championship Tournament:
10. The odds of filling out a perfect bracket are about 1 in 9 quintillion. (thats about 1/9,000,000,000,000,000,000)
I'm still one of those people that fill out at least 5 ESPN brackets hoping this is my year... why not right?
9. Although a common matchup, the No. 16 seed has never beat the No. 1 seed.
Who knows...maybe this year?
8. The name of the tournament “March Madness” was coined by the NCAA in 1982
Although it originated at an Illinois high school in 1932 but was later spoken on-air in 1982.
7. The highest scoring NCAA Tournament game was 149-119.
Loyola Marymount won the 1990 game against Michigan.
6. Kansas City Missouri has hosted 10 final four games since 1953.
However, in recent years, Indianapolis (home of the NCAA headquarters) made an agreement that the final four games will be hosted there every few years.
5. In 1985, No. 8 came out on top!!
Villanova, seeded No. 8, won the whole tournament-- they are the lowest seeded team to ever come out on top!
4. The point-scoring record is 61 points.
Notre Dame’s Austin Carr holds a tournament game record with 61 points in 1970.
3. Only once has all four No. 1 seeds made it to the final four.
In 2008: Kansas, Memphis, UNC and UCLA.
2. A No. 5 seed has never won the national championship...
and more often than not the No. 12 seed beats No.5.
1. University of Kentucky have been invited to the tournament 55/77 times.
and 17 of those 55 they made it to the final four and 8 of them have ended in the national championship title!
March Madness is coming up...get your brackets ready!!! (Go Cougars am I right?!!)