MLB teams are 493-2 when leading by 4+ runs entering the 9th inning this season.
The Yankees have both losses.
- Per KenPom, Houston had a 0.4% chance to win when Kansas had the ball and a 6-point lead with 20 seconds remaining in 1st OT. That makes Houston’s eventual win the most unlikely in any of the 1,487 games between AP Top-25 teams over the last 15 seasons.
- 13 of the last 16 national champions have been top-2 seeds. The exceptions: 2011 UConn 2014 UConn 2023 UConn
- No freshmen played in the national championship game for the first time since 1989.
- The Final Four — Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱 Auburn coach Bruce Pearl: proud Jew & supporter of Israel Florida coach Todd Golden: Jew & Israeli citizen who played in Haifa Duke coach Jon Scheyer: Jew & Israeli citizen who played in Tel Aviv Houston star Emanuel Sharp: Israeli citizen
- (22) Illinois 109, (9) Oregon 77. In Eugene. The 32-point margin of victory is the largest ever by any team in a road game against an AP Top-10 opponent.
- Purdue beat (6) Gonzaga by 18 points on Friday night and (8) Duke by 19 points today. They are the 2nd team ever to beat 2 AP Top-10 teams by 18+ points on a neutral site in the same week, joining UCLA in the 1968 Final Four.
- Florida’s Walter Clayton Jr. is the first player with a 30-point game in the Elite 8 and National Semifinals of the same NCAA Tournament since Indiana State’s Larry Bird in 1979.
- Just two perfectly normal wins over the AP Preseason and Postseason Number 1 teams…
- Not normal, at all: Michigan is the first Division I team to win 70% of its conference games but post a negative scoring differential in league play since Northern Iowa in the 1983-84 Association of Mid-Continent Universities (now Summit League).Michigan finished 14-6 in Big Ten play with a negative point differential.
- BYU’s 96 points in tonight’s win are the most by any visiting team in a game at McKale Center since December 28, 2009, when BYU beat Arizona 99-69, led by 49 from Jimmer Fredette. That was BYU’s last visit to McKale — Arizona played 258 home games in the interim.
- Wisconsin today in a road win at (7) Purdue. - 94 points - 61.5% FG pct - 3 turnovers - 1.45 PPP The Badgers are the only Division I team to shoot 60% from the field and commit 3 or fewer turnovers in a road game over the last 15 seasons.
- Alabama 🧵because that was absurd: Alabama’s 25 3-pointers are not only an NCAA Tournament single game record — only 1 team has ever made more in a win over a Division I opponent (Davidson in 2017 vs Charleston Southern).
- College basketball is the best. If Loyola were a football team, they’d be playing in the Idaho Potato Bowl. Instead, they’re 4 games away from a national title. And they’re good enough to do it.
