Going low

Teams seeded ninth or lower that have advanced to the regional semifinals since 1979, when the NCAA began seeding all teams: 1979 Penn (9-Final Four), St. John’s (10) 1980 Lamar (10) 1981 Saint Joseph’s (9) 1983 Utah (10) 1984 Dayton (10) 1985 Auburn (11), Boston College (11), Kentucky (12) 1986 LSU (11-Final Four), DePaul (12), Cleveland State (14) 1987 LSU (10), Wyoming (12) 1988 Rhode Island (11), Richmond (13) 1989 Minnesota (11) 1990 Texas (10), Loyola Marymount (11), Ball State (12) 1991 Temple (10), UConn (11), Eastern Michigan (12) 1992 Texas-El Paso (9), New Mex. St. (12) 1993 George Washington (12) 1994 Boston College (9), Maryland (10), Tulsa (12) 1996 Arkansas (12) 1997 Providence (10), Texas (10), Tenn.-Chattanooga (14) 1998 West Virginia (10), Washington (11), Valparaiso (13) 1999 Gonzaga (10), Purdue (10), Miami (Ohio) (10), SW Mo. St. (12), Okla. (13) 2000 Gonzaga (10), Seton Hall (10) 2001 Georgetown (10), Temple (11), Gonzaga (12) 2002 Kent State (10), Southern Illinois (11), Missouri (12) 2003 Auburn (10), Butler (12) 2004 Alabama-Birmingham (9), Nevada (10) 2005 N.C. State (10), Wisconsin-Milwaukee (12) 2006 George Mason (11), Bradley (13) 2008 Davidson (10), Villanova (12), Western Kentucky (12) 2009 Arizona (12) 2010 Northern Iowa (9), Saint Mary’s (10), Washington (11), Cornell (12) 2011 Florida State (10), Marquette (11), VCU (11-Final Four), Richmond (12) 2012 Xavier (10), N.C. State (11), Ohio (13) 2013 Wichita State (9-Final Four), Oregon (12), La Salle (13), Florida Gulf Coast (15) 2014 Stanford (10), Dayton (11), Tennessee (11) 2015 UCLA (11) 2016 Syracuse (10-Final Four), Gonzaga (11) 2017 Xavier (11) 2018 Florida State (9), Kansas State (9), Loyola-Chicago (11), Syracuse (11)