Final: Butler & DukeFinal Four: Butler vs. Michigan State, West Virginia vs. Duke
usually by their records and previous tournament performances
2010 NCAA Basketball Championship Duke over Butler
Villanova
Michigan was a #3 seed when they won the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament in 1989.
None. They appeared in their first National Championship game against Duke in the 2010 Tournament.
You have the advantage, or you may be seeded higher in a tournament.
In the March Madness tournament bracket, seeds are used to rank and organize the teams based on their performance and record during the regular season. Higher seeded teams are typically expected to perform better and have an advantage over lower seeded teams. The bracket is set up so that higher seeded teams face lower seeded teams in the early rounds, with the ultimate goal of determining the best team in the tournament.
Kansas was the #6 seed in the Midwest bracket in 1988.
In 2006, the third seeded (in the Minneapolis bracket) University of Florida gators defeated the #2 seeded UCLA (in the Oakland bracket) in the national championship. Neither team was a number one seeed
#1 seeded Kansas defeated Kentucky in the second round of the 2007 NCAA Tournament, by a score of 88-76.
The NCAA tournament seeding is determined by a selection committee that ranks the teams based on their performance during the regular season. The teams are then placed in a bracket with higher-seeded teams facing lower-seeded teams in each round. The seeding impacts the teams' paths to the championship by determining who they will play in each round. Higher-seeded teams typically have an easier path as they face lower-ranked opponents, while lower-seeded teams face tougher competition.