19 — Sweet 16 appearances for UNC since the NCAA tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985, one fewer than Duke.
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18 – Sweet 16 appearances for Kansas since the NCAA tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985.
17 — Sweet 16 appearances for Kentucky since the NCAA tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985.
13 — Sweet 16 teams that have won NCAA titles – Kentucky (7), Indiana (5), North Carolina (5), Kansas (3), North Carolina State (2), Louisville (2), Cincinnati (2), Michigan State (2), Florida (2), Ohio State, Marquette, Syracuse, Wisconsin.
10 – Sweet 16 teams that have a state in their name.
10 – Sweet 16 appearances for Michigan State since 1998. Only Duke (12) has more over than period.
10 – Years since last Sweet 16 appearance for Indiana, when it went to the title game in 2002.
9 — Conference tournament winners who lost in the round of 32 – Florida State, VCU, Norfolk State, Creighton, New Mexico, Murray State, Colorado, Lehigh, Vanderbilt.
7 – Sweet 16 teams that made it last year – Florida, Ohio State, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Kansas, North Carolina, and Marquette. There were nearly two more – Florida State and VCU lost games on the weekend that went to the wire.
6 – Sweet 16 appearances for Wisconsin since 2000.
5 – Sweet 16 appearances for Xavier since 2004. No school has more over that period.
5 – Sweet 16 coaches who have won national championships – Florda’s Billy Donovan (2007, 2006), Kansas’s Bill Self (2008), Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim (2003), Michigan State’s Tom Izzo (2000), Louisville’s Rick Pitino (1996 at Kentucky).
4 – Sweet 16 teams from Ohio (Ohio U., Ohio State, Cincinnati, Xavier), the most from one state to reach this stage.
4 – Sweet 16 teams from the Big East, its most since 2009, when it put five teams in the Sweet 16, most ever by one conference.
4 – Sweet 16 appearances for Ohio State since 2007.
4 – Sweet 16 teams from the Big Ten, its most since 1999.
3 — Sweet 16 teams that won conference titles – Louisville, Michigan State, Ohio U.
3 – Sweet 16 teams that have not won NCAA titles – Ohio U., Baylor, and Xavier.
3 — Sweet 16 teams seeded in double digits — Ohio U (13), N.C. State (11), and Xavier (10).
2 – Sweet 16 teams that are from mid-major conferences – Xavier and Ohio U. – the fewest since 2005.
2 – Sweet 16 teams that were involved in the season’s ugliest on-court incident, a wild brawl that cut the game short – Xavier, Cincinnati.
