Bracket Stats

[HoopsTournament]

Iowa hasn't made S16 since Y2K.

Number of Schools that have made the Sweet Sixteen since Iowa last made the Sweet Sixteen = 95

Number of Current Big Twelve Schools that have made the Sweet Sixteen since Iowa last made the Sweet Sixteen = 9 (TCU is the only one that hasn't, all other 9 have been at least twice)

If we include new Big 12 Schools, BYU has been once, Houston and Cincinnati have been multiple times and UCF has not been.

Sweet Sixteens since 2000

Team	Sweet Sixteens
Kansas	14​
West Virginia	7​
Oklahoma	5​
Texas	5​
Baylor	5​
Iowa State	4​
Texas Tech	4​
Oklahoma State	3​
Houston	3​
Cincinnati	2​
Kansas State	2​
BYU	1​
TCU	0​
UCF	0​

 

[HoopsTournament]

ISU has played the national champion how many times in the last decade? Ha...

Years that Iowa State lost to eventual National Champion

Champion	Year
UConn	2014​
Kentucky	2012​
North Carolina	2005​
Michigan State	2000​
Utah	1944​

 

[HoopsTournament]

Years that Iowa State lost to eventual National Champion

Champion	Year
UConn	2014​
Kentucky	2012​
North Carolina	2005​
Michigan State	2000​
Utah	1944​

Most times losing to eventual National Champion since 2000:

Team	Years
Villanova	7​
Kansas	5​
Wisconsin	5​
Butler	4​
Gonzaga	4​
Iowa State	4​
Kentucky	4​
Michigan State	4​
Oklahoma	4​
Oregon	4​

 

[4theCYcle]

Yes, but even count ISU playing them in the same season as the eventual champion. Ergo, last year KU, Baylor year before. That's gotta be worth something right?

 

[dahliaclone]

• One of the longest active March Madness streaks that isn’t discussed enough is that a power conference team seeded 9th or worse has reached the Sweet 16 in every NCAA tournament since 2008.
• In 23 of the last 25 years, at least one No. 2 seed has been knocked out of the tournament before the Sweet 16.
• There have been 22 No. 2 seeds in tournament history that started the season unranked and entered the tournament ranked in the top 10. Fourteen of those 22 teams have failed to make it to the Sweet 16. One team fits that description this year: Marquette.

 

[GoldCy]

Don't underestimate Marquette coach. He has shown he's good and really smart. He left tx after all.

 

[cyclones500]

Don't underestimate Marquette coach. He has shown he's good and really smart. He left tx after all.

Hence the surname

 

[AlaCyclone]

Most times losing to eventual National Champion since 2000:

Team	Years
Villanova	7​
Kansas	5​
Wisconsin	5​
Butler	4​
Gonzaga	4​
Iowa State	4​
Kentucky	4​
Michigan State	4​
Oklahoma	4​
Oregon	4​

Right behind these teams:

LSU lost in the NCAA Tournament to the eventual National Champion three straight years from 1979-81: Michigan State beat them in the Sweet 16 in 1979, Louisville beat them in the Elite 8 in 1980, and Indiana beat them in the Final Four Semis in 1981! The Tigers were either SEC Regular Season or Tournament Champions all 3 years.

 

[HoopsTournament]

RPI is not used as a factor in the tournament any more, but it is still calculated. With it not being a focus, teams with really bad RPIs have tended to make the tournament more. Specifically, teams from the Big Ten with really bad RPIs tend to make the tournament more.

Here is a list of the Top 5 teams with the worst RPI to get at-large bids since 2019:

Year	Team	RPI
2021​	Michigan State	95​
2022​	Rutgers	91​
2023​	Iowa	81​
2021​	Wisconsin	76​
2019​	Ohio State	72​

 

[CoachHines3]

 

[EvilBetty]

dang. isu did get hosed. should have been a 2 seed