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is the Number One Seed Jinx a Thing?

Posted on 3/16/25 at 8:11 pm
Posted by captdalton
Member since Feb 2021
14938 posts
Posted on 3/16/25 at 8:11 pm
Last year the top #1 seed won the tournament. It was the first time in 13 years and the second time in 20 years.

Is the number one seed jinx a real thing?
Posted by Bigbens42
Trussvegas
Member since Nov 2013
11379 posts
Posted on 3/16/25 at 8:13 pm to
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Last year the top #1 seed won the tournament. It was the first time in 13 years and the second time in 20 years. Is the number one seed jinx a real thing?


Not a jinx. It’s just probability. You always pick the field against the favorite. The favorite may be “the favorite” but that doesn’t mean the odds are great lol.
Posted by Foy
Member since Nov 2009
3886 posts
Posted on 3/16/25 at 8:16 pm to
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Not a jinx. It’s just probability. You always pick the field against the favorite. The favorite may be “the favorite” but that doesn’t mean the odds are great lol.


You might as well be teaching calculus to hamsters my man.
Posted by Pimphand
Member since Sep 2021
2765 posts
Posted on 3/16/25 at 8:22 pm to
The #1 overall seed thing is stupid.

There are 4 #1 seeds and since 1985 when the NCAA expanded to 64 teams a #1 seed has won 25 times. That leaves 13 times a lower seed has won.
Posted by captdalton
Member since Feb 2021
14938 posts
Posted on 3/16/25 at 8:31 pm to
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There are 4 #1 seeds and since 1985 when the NCAA expanded to 64 teams a #1 seed has won 25 times.


And haven’t only 4 of those been the overall number one? There is no doubt that a #1 seed has better than 50/50 odds of winning the tourney.

The overall number one seed though has won less than the other number one seeds by a fair percentage.
Posted by AuburnTigers
Member since Aug 2013
14133 posts
Posted on 3/16/25 at 8:34 pm to
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Is the number one seed jinx a real thing?
Nope. Starting this thread just jinxed bama.

Congrats on your loss to Saint Marys
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
66095 posts
Posted on 3/16/25 at 8:39 pm to
The tournament is weird, man.
Posted by xenythx
Member since Dec 2007
33073 posts
Posted on 3/16/25 at 8:48 pm to
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There are 4 #1 seeds and since 1985 when the NCAA expanded to 64 teams a #1 seed has won 25 times. That leaves 13 times a lower seed has won.


And four of those non-#1 champs are freakin’ UConn.
Posted by captdalton
Member since Feb 2021
14938 posts
Posted on 3/16/25 at 8:52 pm to
I will bet you a family size box of fruit snacks
Posted by Serraneaux
South of 30a
Member since Mar 2014
21545 posts
Posted on 3/16/25 at 8:54 pm to
Not for the BaseVOLS

:)
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