by Through the first round of the NCAA March Madness tournament, the following stats and trends hold true.
The lowest remaining seed is the 12th seeded McNeese State in the Midwest Region and Colorado State in the West.
The Big 10 has 8 remaining teams
The SEC has 8 remaining teams
That’s 16 total schools, which is exactly half of the remaining 32. Allow that to sink in for a moment.
Seeds 1-4 went a combined 16-0.
5 Seeds went 2-2
6 Seeds went 3-1
7 Seeds went 2-2
8 Seeds went 2-2
9 Seeds went 2-2
10 Seeds went 2-2
11 Seeds went 1-3
12 Seeds went 2-2
So, again, 1-4 vs 13-16 was a total whitewash with the top seeds going a perfect 16-0
The “middle seeds” 5-8 went a combined 9-7. Which of course means, seeds 9-12 went solid 7-9.
The bottom line, each region appears to be very top heavy with the top four, while each middle of the region is close to dead even.
The final overall numbers for round one equal out to be 25-7 with the top seeds coming out well ahead. Only seven lower seeds won with the truly the ones anyone can honestly consider to be upsets McNeese State, Colorado State and Drake. However, most brackets actually had Colorado State and Drake picked to win. Thus, truly, the only real major upset everyone is talking about is McNeese State over Clemson.
The highest scoring team of the first 32 were Duke and Arizona with 93 each while the lowest was SIU Edwards as they only scored 40 versus Houston.
The most commonly picked lower seeds across brackets nationwide that lost, were San Diego State, North Carolina and Akron. In fact, those 3 accounted for half of my 6 total losses in the first round.
Good luck to everyone in the second round!
