Everyone's favorite thing to do when filling out a bracket is to pick upsets and be right about a Cinderella team. It will be the talk at pretty much every sports bar in America over the next four to five days. For the sake of this article, we will consider Cinderella teams 7-seeds or higher. We will be looking at them making the Sweet 16 and possibly further. I know 5- and 6-seeds can be considered dark horses to go far in tournaments, but the odds are not enticing enough to take a stab at them. I will break down previous tournaments’ Cinderella teams and see if we can find any trends that will lead us to identify possible candidates for this tournam ent. Strap in because we have a lot of data to go through.
- 2023 NCAA Tournament Perfect Bracket: Small Pools
- 2023 NCAA Tournament Perfect Bracket: Medium Pools
- 2023 NCAA Tournament Perfect Bracket: Large Pools
- Sleepers Teams to Monitor
- 2023 NCAA Tournament Top Seeds: Contenders or Pretenders
- NCAA Tournament Survivor Guide For Round 1 (Thursday)
- 2023 NCAA Tournament: Which No. 1 Seed Will Lose First?
- 2023 NCAA Tournament Cinderella Guide
- What Conference Will Champion Come From?
- West Region Teams to Fade
- East Region Teams to Fade
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2023 NCAA Tournament Cinderella Teams
In the KenPom era, there have been 75 teams seeded (7) or higher to make at least the Sweet 16. That is, on average, almost four teams a tournament. Let's break it down by seed and how far each team progressed in the tournament.
- 12 Final 4 teams
- 15 Elite 8 teams
- 48 Sweet 16 teams