Lowest Seed to Ever Reach the Final Four

Everybody loves a Cinderella story, and the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is their best supplier. Upsets happen left and right, but on rare occasions, a team can extend their magical run to the Final Four. Since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985, only five double-digit seeds have made the Final Four. All five teams were No. 11 seeds.

Let’s take a look back and see how these teams fared.

1. 1986 LSU Tigers

The LSU tigers are the trendsetters here, but they did it in style. This LSU team was a top ten team in the nation, winning their first 14 games of the season. Then the chicken pox outbreak hit, three players were ruled academically ineligible, and they lost two players to…