NCAA Tournament 2017: How successful are 1-seeds in the tournament?

Over the last few days, a lot of column inches and twitter rants have been dedicated to the appropriate seeding for the nation’s top basketball teams. With the official bracket finally unveiled, the committee has spoken and all of our opinions on the matter are now moot.

Now that Gonzaga—along with Villanova, Kansas, and North Carolina—has officially landed on the top line, let’s see how well similarly seeded teams have done since the tournament expanded to a 64-team format in 1985.

Overall tournament record of No. 1 seeds