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The 'NCAA tournament No.1-seeds' quiz
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The 'NCAA tournament No.1-seeds' quiz

The 2026 NCAA men's basketball tournament gets underway tonight with the First Four in Dayton Ohio, where over the next two days the field of 68 will shrink to 64. 

Two of the teams who advance will get to play a No.1-seed in the tournament, a game the 16-seed has won just twice in tournament history. 

Which brings us to today's quiz. Can you name every school that's earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA men's basketball tournament since modern seeding began in 1979?

Good luck!

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TIME:
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2026
Florida Gators
2026
Duke Blue Devils
2026
Arizona Wildcats
2026
Michigan Wolverines
2025
Houston Cougars
2025
Florida Gators
2025
Duke Blue Devils
2025
Auburn Tigers
2024
Purdue Boilermakers
2024
North Carolina Tar Heels
2024
Houston Cougars
2024
Connecticut Huskies
2023
Purdue Boilermakers
2023
Kansas Jayhawks
2023
Houston Cougars
2023
Alabama Crimson Tide
2022
Kansas Jayhawks
2022
Baylor Bears
2022
Arizona Wildcats
2022
Gonzaga Bulldogs
2021
Baylor Bears
2021
Gonzaga Bulldogs
2021
Illinois Fighting Illini
2021
Michigan Wolverines
2019
Duke Blue Devils
2019
Gonzaga Bulldogs
2019
Virginia, Cavaliers
2019
North Carolina Tar Heels
2018
Virginia, Cavaliers
2018
Xavier Musketeers
2018
Kansas Jayhawks
2018
Villanova Wildcats
2017
North Carolina
2017
Kansas Jayhawks
2017
Gonzaga Bulldogs
2017
Villanova Wildcats
2016
Virginia Cavaliers
2016
Oregon Ducks
2016
North Carolina
2016
Kansas Jayhawks
2015
Wisconsin Badgers
2015
Duke Blue Devils
2015
Villanova Wildcats
2015
Kentucky Wildcats
2014
Virginia Cavaliers
2014
Wichita State Shockers
2014
Arizona Wildcats
2014
Florida Gators
2013
Kansas Jayhawks
2013
Indiana Hoosiers
2013
Gonzaga Bulldogs
2013
Louisville Cardinals
2012
Michigan State Spartans
2012
North Carolina
2012
Syracuse Orange
2012
Kentucky Wildcats
2011
Pittsburgh Panthers
2011
Kansas Jayhawks
2011
Duke Blue Devils
2011
Ohio State Buckeyes
2010
Duke Blue Devils
2010
Kentucky Wildcats
2010
Kansas Jayhawks
2010
Syracuse Orange
2009
Pittsburgh Panthers
2009
North Carolina
2009
Louisville Cardinals
2009
Connecticut Huskies
2008
UCLA Bruins
2008
North Carolina
2008
Memphis Tigers
2008
Kansas Jayhawks
2007
Ohio State Buckeyes
2007
North Carolina
2007
Kansas Jayhawks
2007
Florida Gators
2006
Villanova Wildcats
2006
Memphis Tigers
2006
Duke Blue Devils
2006
Connecticut Huskies
2005
Washington Huskies
2005
North Carolina
2005
Illinois Fighting Illini
2005
Duke Blue Devils
2004
Stanford Cardinal
2004
St. Joseph's
2004
Kentucky Wildcats
2004
Duke Blue Devils
2003
Texas Longhorns
2003
Oklahoma Sooners
2003
Kentucky Wildcats
2003
Arizona Wildcats
2002
Maryland Terrapins
2002
Kansas Jayhawks
2002
Duke Blue Devils
2002
Cincinnati Bearcats
2001
Stanford Cardinal
2001
Michigan State Spartans
2001
Illinois Fighting Illini
2001
Duke Blue Devils
2000
Stanford Cardinal
2000
Michigan State Spartans
2000
Duke Blue Devils
2000
Arizona Wildcats
1999
Michigan State Spartans
1999
Duke Blue Devils
1999
Connecticut Huskies
1999
Auburn Tigers
1998
North Carolina
1998
Kansas Jayhawks
1998
Duke Blue Devils
1998
Arizona Wildcats
1997
North Carolina
1997
Minnesota Golden Gophers
1997
Kentucky Wildcats
1997
Kansas Jayhawks
1996
Purdue Boilermakers
1996
UMass Minutemen
1996
Kentucky Wildcats
1996
Connecticut Huskies
1995
Wake Forest Demon Deacons
1995
UCLA Bruins
1995
Kentucky Wildcats
1995
Kansas Jayhawks
1994
Purdue Boilermakers
1994
North Carolina
1994
Missouri Tigers
1994
Arkansas Razorbacks
1993
North Carolina
1993
Michigan Wolverines
1993
Kentucky Wildcats
1993
Indiana Hoosiers
1992
UCLA Bruins
1992
Ohio State Buckeyes
1992
Kansas Jayhawks
1992
Duke Blue Devils
1991
UNLV Runnin' Rebels
1991
Ohio State Buckeyes
1991
North Carolina
1991
Arkansas Razorbacks
1990
UNLV Runnin' Rebels
1990
Oklahoma Sooners
1990
Michigan State Spartans
1990
Connecticut Huskies
1989
Oklahoma Sooners
1989
Illinois Fighting Illini
1989
Georgetown Hoyas
1989
Arizona Wildcats
1988
Temple Owls
1988
Purdue, Boilermakers
1988
Oklahoma Sooners
1988
Arizona Wildcats
1987
UNLV Runnin' Rebels
1987
North Carolina
1987
Indiana Hoosiers
1987
Georgetown Hoyas
1986
St. John's Red Storm
1986
Kentucky Wildcats
1986
Kansas Jayhawks
1986
Duke Blue Devils
1985
St. John's
1985
Oklahoma Sooners
1985
Michigan Wolverines
1985
Georgetown Hoyas
1984
North Carolina
1984
Kentucky Wildcats
1984
Georgetown Hoyas
1984
DePaul Blue Demons
1983
Virginia Cavaliers
1983
St. John's
1983
Louisville Cardinals
1983
Houston Cougars
1982
Virginia Cavaliers
1982
North Carolina
1982
Georgetown Hoyas
1982
DePaul Blue Demons
1981
Virginia Cavaliers
1981
Syracuse Orange
1981
LSU Tigers
1981
DePaul Blue Demons
1980
Syracuse Orange
1980
LSU Tigers
1980
Kentucky Wildcats
1980
DePaul Blue Demons
1979
UCLA Bruins
1979
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
1979
North Carolina
1979
Indiana State Sycamores

Tommy Fradenburg is a freelance writer and an alumni of UNC Chapel Hill currently based in Charlotte, North Carolina. He religiously follows his favorite teams The New York Yankees and Dallas Cowboys (yes, he knows) as well as his alma mater the Tar Heels and West Ham United F.C. in the Premier League. See more of his work on X @tommyfradenburg.

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