2021 NCAA Tournament

[John J. MacInnes]

This will be the 18th NCAA tournament with a 16 team field.

The winner has come from the Midwest Region 5 times, from the Northeast Region 5 times, from the West Region 4 times, and from the East Region 3 times.

In the first 17 tournaments, two seeds have been the dominant ones in the field - the Midwest #1 and the Northeast #1 have each won 4 tournaments. The other nine winners have come from nine different seed locations with one each (West #1, #2 #3, #4, East #1, #3, #4, Midwest #3, and Northeast #2).

Three of the past 4 tournaments have been won by the Midwest #1 seed ('16 North Dakota, '17 Denver, and '19 UMD).

Here are the all-time records by seed in the previous 17 editions (with title winners in parentheses):

East #1
28-16 (Union 2014)

East #2
7-17

East #3
18-16 (UMD 2011)

East #4
10-16 (Providence 2015)

Northeast #1
33-13 (2005 Denver, 2009 Boston U, 2010 Boston College, 2012 Boston College)

Northeast #2
19-16 (2008 Boston College)

Northeast #3
6-17

Northeast #4
6-17

Midwest #1
30-13 (2006 Wisconsin, 2016 North Dakota, 2017 Denver, 2019 UMD)

Midwest #2
15-17

Midwest #3
10-16 (2007 Michigan State)

Midwest #4
8-17

West #1
20-16 (2003 Minnesota)

West #2
21-16 (2004 Denver)

West #3
9-16 (2018 UMD)

West #4
15-16 (2013 Yale)

[John J. MacInnes]

By region, here's how many times each seed has advanced to the Frozen Four:

East
#1 - 9 times
#2 - 1 time
#3 - 4 times
#4 - 3 times

Northeast
#1 - 10 times
#2 - 4 times
#3 - 2 times
#4 - 1 time

Midwest
#1 - 9 times
#2 - 3 times
#3 - 2 times
#4 - 3 times

West
#1 - 6 times
#2 - 6 times
#3 - 2 times
#4 - 3 times