KU and the Century Mark

KU scored 105 against Austin Peay marking the 93rd time in 2027 games (4.6%) that a team topped the century mark in scoring. Oddly this is the first game of 100 or more in 4 years. In 1988 there were 10 such games. The last team to hit 100 was Kentucky in 2012 against Indiana. KU has scored 100 or more 8 times. That is good for 3rd. Kentucky and North Caroline have done it 9 times each. In 4th is Loyola Marymount with 5. Below is the table with all the stats. Another fun tourney fact is the most common match up. Since the tourney expanded to 64+ teams the most common match up is Kentucky vs. Utah which has occurred 6 times. Both of those teams are out of the tourney so that record will not be increased this year. There are Several possible match ups that have occurred 5 times that could happen this year to tie for the most common match up. They are;

Kansas/North Carolina
Kansas/Duke
North Carolina/Villanova

Below is a table of all match ups of 4 or greater.