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Tournament Challenge: 550 out of 17.3 million nailed Final Four

Here are some Tournament Challenge takeaways following Sunday’s games:

(Unless noted otherwise, all seed-vs-seed facts are since 1985.)

• 550 entries (of 17,304,320) predicted Loyola-Chicago, Michigan, Villanova and Kansas would be in the Final Four.

• 18.5 percent of entries (3,200,717 of 17.3 million) correctly predicted that No. 1 Villanova and No. 1 Kansas would face each other in the Final Four. Of those brackets, 61 percent (1,950,970) picked Villanova to win the matchup and advance to the final.

• Just 0.1 percent of entries (9,760 of 17.3 million) correctly predicted that No. 3 Michigan and No. 11 Loyola-Chicago would face each other in the Final Four. Of those brackets, 63.9 percent (6,240) picked Michigan to win the matchup and advance to the final.

• No. 3 seeds are 30-15 vs. No. 11 seeds, but are just 9-7 since 2010. Six of the past eight meetings have been decided by single digits (11-seeds won the other two by 23 and 25).

Overall brackets picking each team for each remaining round:

No. 1 Villanova -- Final Four: 58.4 percent; final: 31.7 percent; champs: 16.3 percent

No. 1 Kansas -- Final Four: 29.8 percent; final: 14.7 percent; champs: 7.9 percent

No. 3 Michigan -- Final Four: 19.1 percent; final: 8.1 percent; champs: 3.8 percent

No. 11 Loyola-Chicago -- Final Four: 0.5 percent (83,292); final: 0.2 percent (34,637); champs: 0.1 percent (17,556)