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Tournament Challenge: 1.6 percent had North Carolina-Villanova title game

The only top seed to make the Final Four is moving on to the national championship game of the NCAA tournament, as the North Carolina Tar Heels held off several late pushes from the Syracuse Orange to win 83-66. North Carolina was far and away the most popular selection in the ESPN Tournament Challenge among the teams that actually made the Final Four.

Twenty-six percent of all Tournament Challenge brackets had North Carolina advancing to the national championship game.

  • Just .4 percent of Tournament Challenge brackets had Syracuse carrying its Cinderella story into the final game of the NCAA tournament.