When was the last time/if ever did all four #1 seeds make it to the Final 4?

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</TD><TD class=bg-icon-answer>Nope Never ever has this happened...Thats why they say that going "with the chalk" is a bad idea when filling out your brackets

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No they have never had all four number one seeds go to the final four and a number one seed has never lost to a sixteen seed ever.
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• Since Kentucky won their championship in 1978 as the #1 team going into the tournament, only four teams have won the National Championship while being ranked #1 in the polls going into the tournament: 1982 North Carolina, 1992 Duke, 1995 UCLA and 2001 Duke.
• Since the NCAA started seeding teams (1979), only four times has the championship matched two #1 seeds:
  1. 1982 North Carolina vs. Georgetown
  2. 1993 North Carolina vs. Michigan
  3. 1999 Duke vs. Connecticut
  4. 2005 North Carolina vs. Illinois
• Only twice since full seeding of all tournament teams began in 1979 have no #1 seeds made the Final Four:
  • 1980:
    • Louisville - 2
    • Iowa - 5
    • Purdue - 6
    • UCLA - 8
  • 2006:
    • UCLA - 2
    • Florida - 3
    • LSU - 4
    • George Mason - 11
• Since the expansion to 64 teams in 1985, there has never been a case where all four #1 seeds made it to the Final Four.
  • The closest it has ever come to this was in 1993 when three #1 seeds (Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina) and a #2 seed (Kansas) made it.
  • On two other occasions, three #1 seeds made it to the Final Four accompanied by a #4 seed:
    • 1997 (#1 seeds: Kentucky, Minnesota, North Carolina; #4 seed: Arizona)
    • 1999 (#1 seeds: Connecticut, Duke, Michigan State; #4 seed: Ohio State).
• The only team to beat three #1 seeds in a single tournament was #4 seed Arizona in 1997 (it's impossible to beat all four #1 seeds in a single tournament).
• The 2006 tournament was the first tournament in an even-numbered year since 1990 in which one of the #1 seeds did not lose in the second round. (This means that from 1990-2004 inclusive, a #1 seed was upset during the tournament's first weekend every other year.) Since the tournament expanded to 64 teams, no #1 seed has lost in the second round in an odd-numbered year.
• A #1 seed has never lost in the first round to a #16 seed.

royalfan said:

Why is going with chalk a bad way to pick your brackets? Makes no sense whatsoever. Taking underdogs, gives you a far worse chance.

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