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Team ranked No. 1 in the initial Associated Press poll since 1996-97 that finished as NCAA champion (Connecticut in 2003-04).

7

Times in the past eight seasons Duke was a No. 1 NCAA Tournament seed. No other team in that period has been a top seed more than three times.

8.9

Combined points per game produced by current North Carolina players during the Tar Heels' 2004-05 championship season.

4

Knee surgeries--two each--in the past 12 months for Villanova seniors Curtis Sumpter and Jason Fraser. Sumpter blew out his ACL last spring, then reinjured his knee in preseason practice. Fraser had microfracture surgery on both knees to try to relieve the pain that has bothered him throughout his career.

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