A "seed" is a rating given to a team within their region. Therefore, the "#1 Seed in the South" is the top ranked team playing in the south region.
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UNC was a number 1 seed in the 2009 NCAA basketball tournament.
Villanova was an eighth seed in 1985.
The earliest round for a 1 seed to go out in the NCAA basketball tourney is in the first round. It happened in 2018 when the University of Maryland - Baltimore County (16th seed in the South) beat the University of Virginia (1st seed in the South) by a score of 74 - 54.
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