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...Crimson may not be playing one of the tourney’s top four seeds, but it may have drawn the next-toughest thing in the Terrapins. The defending champions began the ’06-’07 at the top of the national rankings, but its four conference losses this season have dropped them to the sixth spot in the nation. Maryland is coming off a loss to North Carolina—a number one seed in the tournament’s Dallas region—in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament...
...ever considered the possibility. A number-one seed losing to a 16-seed? The very thought was laughable. Never in the then 16-year history of the tournament had such a feat been accomplished...
...Crimson’s placement as a 15-seed was surprising given the team’s abysmal nonconference showing—Harvard went 2-11 before tearing through the Ivy League. Tournament experts projected the Crimson as the lowest-possible 16-seed, which would have given Harvard a matchup with one of the tournament’s four top-ranked teams: North Carolina, Tennessee, Connecticut, or Duke...
...didn’t pay much attention to ‘Bracketology’ or the coverage, but I thought we were a 16 [seed] all the way,” Crimson coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. “But I’m thrilled to be playing the national champions...
...Harvard women’s basketball team stunned the nation in one of the greatest moments in collegiate sports when, playing at Stanford’s Maples Pavilion, the Crimson entered collegiate history by defeating number-one seed Stanford in the first round of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament. ESPN recently earmarked the accomplishment as sixth in its top 25 greatest moments in NCAA Tournament history. The Crimson’s 71-67 victory marks the only instance, in either men’s or women’s tournament history, that a sixteenth seed...