Christian Laettner is well known for his last second jump shot on March 28, 1992 giving the Duke Blue Devils a 104-103 win over Kentucky in the East regional finals of the NCAA tournament. Duke went on to win the National Championship.
45 if they're only playing 1 game against each team.
(If it's home and away I'd guess it would be 90)
The last time the Duke Men's team was in the NIT was 1981(Purdue 81, Duke 69 - last NIT game) and (Duke 75, Alabama 70 - last NIT win.)
Alaska Does Not have A division 1 school but just a few years ago South Dakota State University, University of South Dakota and North Dakota State University made the jump to Division 1. Only NDSU out of the three teams has made it to the Big dance.
From 1979 (when seeds were first used) through 2013, the NCAA men's basketball tournament Final Fours that have had at least one #1 seed is 91.4%. Only three times has the Final Four notincluded at least one #1 seed: 1980, 2006 and 2011. The titles in those years were won by a #2 seed, #3 seed and #3 seed respectively.
For the record, there has been only one year when all four #1 seeds made it to the Final Four. This was in 2008.
51-Bill Chambers, William & Mary vs. Virginia, Feb. 14,
1953
(Since 1973, 35-Larry Abney, Fresno St. vs. SMU, Feb.
17, 2000)
The furthest Florida State has gone in March Madness was the championship game in 1972. They lost to UCLA, 81-76. Through the 2008 March Madness, this has been their only final four appearance.
Once. They went to the NCAA tournament for the first time in 2012 as a #15 seed.
2010 - Duke 61, Butler 59
2009 - North Carolina 89, Michigan St 72
2008 - Kansas 75, Memphis 68 (OT)
2007 - Florida 84, Ohio St 75
2006 - Florida 73, UCLA 57
2005 - North Carolina 75, Illinois 70
2004 - Connecticut 82, Georgia Tech 73
2003 - Syracuse 81, Kansas 78
2002 - Maryland 64, Indiana 52
2001 - Duke 82, Arizona 72
2000 - Michigan St 89, Florida 76
2009- North Carolina 89, Michigan St. 72
2008- Kansas 75, Memphis 68 OT
2007- Florida 84, Ohio State 75
2006- Florida 73, UCLA 57
2005- North Carolina 75, Illinois 70
KU has won 5 national championships, 3 of them being NCAA Championships.
In 1922 and 1923 they won the Helms National Championship.
They won NCAA Championships in 1952, 1988, and 2008.
Seven Actually no, the BCS started in 1998 and MU has never been in one. MU has made those bowls Orange, Rose, Sugar, Fiesta but with 3-5 losses and was not a top prentice bowl.
Syracuse has made 33 appearances in the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: 1957, 1966, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009 and 2010.
To see who is the best basketball team, and to watch a dang lot of good basketball at once.
Indiana beat Kentucky on 12/10/2011 by the score of 73-72 on a last second, 3-point shot.
There are nearly 40 colleges and universities that have adopted the nickname, "Wildcats". Among the more larger schools are Arizona, Bethune-Cookman, Davidson, Kansas State, Kentucky, New Hampshire, Northwestern, Villanova and Weber State.
5 teams came from the North and South Carolina in 2011 (3 from NC, 2 from SC). There were actually 68 teams in this years tournament, so about 7.4% of the teams came from these two states.
If you are talking about the round of 64 (officially the second round), 7.8% of the teams from these two states made it (no team from a Carolina lost in the first round, although UNC-Ashville had to play to make it to the second round).