1985
Kansas
Louisville in 1987
Kansas
UCLA with 11.
Villanova was the lowest seed to win the tournament as an 8 seed in 1985.
Rankings are subjective. The NCAA Tournament games are about matchups.
Since the seeding system was introduced in 1979, the lowest seed to win the NCAA men's basketball tournament was 8th-seeded Villanova in 1985.
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16 seeded Harvard defeated 1 seed Stanford in the 1998 women's NCAA tournament. That is the only victory by a 16 seed in either the men's or women's tournament.
Oklahoma in 2000 ranked 19
Last year. They were ranked a 5 seed and lost to Cornell a 12.
16 seed, beat duke last year
The higher seed is considered the home team
Kentucky
An at large bid is awarded to a team that makes the NCAA Tournament, but did not win their Conference Tournament.
Kentucky has the most NCAA Tournament victories with 98.