As mentioned, 7 of the 8 teams are champions. We have 2 teams that won both a share of the regular season as well as their conference tournament (Kansas and Butler), 3 regular season champs (UNC, Florida and Arizona) and 2 conf tourney champs (Kentucky and Connecticut). Only VCU is the outlier – but they are a champion in our hearts by being Cinderella!

The city of Richmond has as many teams in the Elite 8 and the mighty Big East conference – 1.

Before we get too harsh on the Big East, at least they did better than the Big 10 – who got shut out.

The only conference with 2 teams was the SEC. Many statistical rating systems had the SEC as the 6th best conference behind all the other 5 BCS conferences – so of course, it makes sense that they would have the most at this point.

6 of the top 8 seeds made it to the Sweet 16 (only Notre Dame and Pitt) – now we only have one #1 (Kansas) and two #2 (UNC and Florida) seeds left.

To my count, there were 12 mid-major seeds that were a 12 seed or higher. Of those, only one was supposed to get to the Elite 8 (San Diego St) and only one other (BYU) would make the Sweet 16. Instead, they had two make the Elite 8 (Butler and VCU), and three others (San Diego St, BYU and Richmond) make the Sweet 16. Not a bad showing for the little guys!