San Diego State just made their fourth Sweet 16 in history, all since 2011. En route to the Sweet 16, SDSU has only played one single digit seed.

2011: Northern Colorado (15), Temple (7)
2014: New Mexico St (13) + North Dakota St (12)
2023: Charleston (12) + Furman (13)
2024: UAB (12) + Yale (13)

Houston in its fifth straight Sweet 16 and has only played one game against a Top 8 seed in their 10 games to get to the second weekend. In 2021, Houston played four double digit seeds to get to the Final Four.

That's some strange bracket luck.

This post was edited on 3/25/24 at 12:11 pm

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Posted by BigBro

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Posted on 3/25/24 at 12:34 pm to anc

A deeper dive..

San Diego State
2011 2 seed played 15 + 7 (expected)
2014 4 seed played 13 + team that upset 5th seed (Oklahoma)
2023 5 seed played 12 + team that upset 4th seed (Virginia)
2024 5 seed played 12 + team that upset 4th seed (Auburn)

Houston
2019 3 seed played 14 + team that upset 6th seed (Iowa State)
2021 2 seed played 15 + 10 (expected) *
2022 5 seed played 12 + 4 (expected)
2023 1 seed played 16 + 9 (expected) *
2024 1 seed played 16 + 9 (expected) *

* 7 vs 10 and 8 vs 9 are toss up games imo

San Diego State certainly had some good luck, but I think Houston played about who they expected to play. The one "upset" was 11th seed Ohio State beating #6 seed Iowa State, which imo, isn't really a big upset.

Great stat either way.