Tournament Team Stats
Since
1985
Updated through 2005
In the 21 years since the tournament went to 64 teams in 1985:
- 262 teams have made the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament
(including 5 new ones this year)
- 147 teams have won at least one game over the past 20 years
(though 2004)
- 95 teams have made the Sweet Sixteen at least once
- 37 teams have made at least one Final Four
- 16 teams have won at least one championship
- 73 teams have garnered a top four seed (including one new one
this year)
- 30 teams have garnered a #1 seed (including one new one this year
- Washington)
And now you can check out each and every one of them - track the
records of every single team that has made the 64-team field since
1985. You can answer the question: what is the only team to
make the tournament all 21 years (it's not as obvious as you may
think!)? You can see year-by-year seedings for each team and
year-by-year wins. Plus, teams are ranked by various criteria
such as total wins, sweet sixteens, final fours, high seeds, etc.
Check it out at the Tournament Team Stats
Page.
The pages were created from my personal records (so there could be
errors) from an Excel spreadsheet format. Also, I'm a purist -
there are 64 teams in the tournament, not
65. Thus, only the winners of the Tuesday play-in games are
considered to have made the tourney. (For the time being in the
seeding rankings, I've included both Oakland, Mich. and Alabama
A&M).
There are several
tabbed pages with stats in various formats. Below is an
explanation of the various pages:
- Wins: alphabetical listing of the number of wins during
each year of tournament (0-6)
- Seeds: alphabetical listing of the seed during each year of
the tournament (1-16)
- RankApp: teams ranked according to most appearances during
last 21 years (1985-2005)
- RankWins: teams ranked according to most total tournament
wins during the last 20 years (1985-2004)
- RankWins/App: teams ranked according to average wins per
tournament appearance
- RankS16: teams ranked according to most total times in
Sweet Sixteen during the last 20 years
- RankF4: teams ranked according to most total times in Final
Four during the last 20 years
- RankChamp: teams ranked according to most championships
during the last 20 years
- RankAvgSeed: teams ranked according to average seeding of
all appearances
- Rank#1Seed: teams ranked according to most #1 seeds during
last
21 years
- RankTop4Seed: teams ranked according to most top 4 seeds
during last 21 years
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