1. Pittsburgh 26, North Carolina 20 (1941)
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What is the least amount of points scored in a college basketball game by one team?
Lowest Scoring Games in College Basketball
Surprisingly, the lowest-scoring game in college basketball after the introduction of the shot clock was pretty recent. The North Carolina State Wolfpack scored a meager 24 points against Virginia Tech’s 47 points in 2019.
What is the lowest seed ever to make it to the Final Four?
No. 11
The lowest seed to make the Final Four is a No. 11. It has happened five times, most recently in 2021. The highest seed to ever make the championship is an 8, which has happened twice.
Has a 16 team beat a 1?
UMBC is the only No. 16 seed to ever beat a No. 1 seed since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1985. Entering the 2022 tournament, No.
What is the highest scoring game in NCAA tournament history?
264 points
264 points: 1990 second round, No. 11 Loyola Marymount 149, No. 3 Michigan 115. Loyola Marymount blew the doors off of Michigan in the highest-scoring NCAA Tournament game in history.
What was the lowest scoring basketball game ever?
In the lowest scoring game of all time, the Fort Wayne Pistons beat the Minneapolis Lakers 19-18 that day.
What is the least points scored in a quarter?
According to Basketball-Reference.com (h/t CBSSports.com’s Matt Moore), the Celtics set a new record for postseason futility when they scored an all-time low seven points in the first quarter. All told, the Celtics shot just 3-of-23 from the field in the opening frame, including a ghastly 0-of-6 from beyond the arc.
What’s the farthest a 16 seed has gone?
The team faced 9-seed Wichita State in the Sweet 16 and lost 72-58. It is the furthest the program has ever advanced in the tournament.
What’s the farthest a 15 seed has gone?
The farthest a 15-seed has ever gone in the tournament was Florida Gulf Coast in 2013 when the Eagles advanced to the Sweet 16 before falling to Florida, who ironically, will face Oral Roberts in their next tournament game.
Has there ever been a Final Four without a 1 seed?
Even with the successes of No. 1 seeds in the Final Four and championship game, there has only been one Final Four in which all four top seeds from the field made it: 2008, when Kansas, Memphis, North Carolina and UCLA were all there.
What is the biggest upset in NCAA Tournament history?
1 Georgetown. Villanova had lost to the Hoyas twice in the regular season but on this night, the Wildcats hit an amazing 78.6 percent from the field in the last college basketball game played without a shot clock. It was enough to score what for more than 30 years was the greatest upset in NCAA Tournament history.
Has anyone ever had a perfect bracket?
No, there has never been a perfect men’s college basketball bracket on record. No person has ever correctly predicted all 63 NCAA men’s basketball tournament games in a documented bracket.
Has a 15 ever beaten a 2?
15 seed to defeat a No. 2 seed when it shocked Kentucky, 85-79, in overtime in the first round of the 2022 NCAA tournament. It marked the second year in a row a 15 downed a 2, as Oral Roberts upset Ohio State in 2021.
What was the closest perfect bracket?
The person who has come closest to correctly predicting the winners of all the games (on record) is Gregg Nigl of Columbus, Ohio, who achieved the record-setting feat in 2019. He correctly picked the winners for the first 49 games, and this broke the previous streak of 39 that was set in 2017.
Has a college basketball team ever scored 100 points?
Frank Selvy of Furman University is the only player to score 100 points at the Division I level.
Has any basketball team scored 200 points?
But it did happen. George Barber’s team scored 200 points, achieved the Holy Grail.
What is LeBron’s lowest scoring game?
LeBron James put up his fewest points in a game versus the Rockets on December 29, 2004, with 3 points.
What’s the worst loss in NBA history?
58 – St. Louis Hawks at Minneapolis Lakers, March 19, 1956. Before the Nuggets in 2009, the Minneapolis Lakers held the record. In Game 2 of the division semifinals in the Western Conference (best-of-three series), the Lakers blew out the Hawks 133-75.
Has there ever been a 0 0 NBA game?
NBA: On November 22, 1950, the Fort Wayne Pistons defeated the Minneapolis Lakers 19-18 in the lowest scoring game in NBA history. This was prior to shot clock being added in 1954/55.
What is the highest-scoring quarter in basketball?
Thompson set the record for the highest-scoring quarter in NBA history with 37 points in the third period of a 2015 game (more on that below). Love nearly matched him in 2016, racking up 34 points in a quarter for the Cavaliers.
Who has the most 3 pointers in a quarter?
The NBA’s all-time made 3-pointer leader caught fire from deep, drilling a record-setting six 3s in the first quarter. Curry now holds the record for most 3-pointers in a single quarter in finals history. Curry’s first quarter performance rewrote the history books.