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No. 1 with a bullet

Nearly everyone is picking top-ranked Duke to win the NCAA Tournament this year, and it's hard to argue with the Blue Devils' supporters. Since the first NCAA tourney in 1949, more than one-third of the teams that finished the regular season No. 1 in the AP poll ended up winning the national championship. Here's a look at the 19 teams to pull off this feat:

School              Top-ranked    Years
                    title teams

UCLA                     8        1964, 1967, 1969, 1971-73, 1975,
                                  1995
Kentucky                 3        1949, 1951,1978
Indiana                  2        1953, 1976
North Carolina           2        1957, 1982
San Francisco            2        1955-56
Duke                     1        1992
N. Carolina State        1        1974

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