March Madness is a college basketball tournament to determine the national champions. Each team that qualifies is giving a seed at the start of the tournament. The “seed” is the raking of the team, 1 being the best, and 16th the worst. The graph above shows the seed of the men’s March Madness winning team. The tournament first started in 1939, but the graph starts in 1985 when the tournament expanded to 64 teams.
The highest seeded team to win the tournament during this time span was Villanova, No 8 seed, during their 1985 win.
The second highest team to win was UConn during their 2014 team as a 7 seeded team.
The third highest team was Kansas, No 6 seed, in 1998.
The majority of tournaments are won by No 1 seeded teams. During this time period a No 1 seeded team has won 64% of the time.
March Madness Winning Seed Graph:
The x-axis (horizontal part of the graph) shows the year the game took place. The y-axis (vertical part of the graph) shows the seed of the team that won. Each bar represents the seed of the winning team in the men’s championship game of March Madness. March Madness: The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, is a single-elimination tournament played every March in the United States. It currently features 68 college basketball teams from the Division 1 level of the NCAA, to determine the national champion.
