Each March, before I fill in my NCAA tournament bracket, I like to pause a moment and consider the most important statistic related to each of the 68 teams in the field. Sometimes it's a number recorded by an individual player or the head coach; other times, it's a collective team statistic. This March, I've found some numbers that really surprise me -- both in good and bad ways.
Here are the numbers to know for each of the field's 68 teams:
Number to know: 51
The Jayhawks haven't walked off of a basketball floor in defeat for 51 days now, a rather impressive feat for a team playing in the Big 12, statistically the strongest conference in the nation.