Two 11-seeds have reached the Sweet 16

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Hand Of God
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Has anything close to that happened in the women's game before?
Hand Of God
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Did a little research.

To answer my own question, Gonzaga and Kansas did the same in 2012. The Zags went on to the Elite 8 that year where they lost to Stanford.
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13 seeds
Three 13 seeds have won their second-round games, compared to six in the men's tournament (five of which occurred since 1998). All three of the winning 13 seeds in the women's tournament defeated 5 seeds.

Year Winner Loser Score
2007 Marist Middle Tennessee 73-59
2005 Liberty DePaul 88-79
1994 Texas A&M San Diego State 75-72 (OT)
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12 seeds
Four 12 seeds have won their second-round games, as opposed to 13 in the men's tournament since 1994 and seven more from 1985 to 1993. All three 12 seeds to win at this stage of the women's tournament defeated 4 seeds.

Year Winner Loser Score
2017 Quinnipiac Miami (FL) 85-78
2014 BYU Nebraska 80-76
2013 Kansas South Carolina 75-69
1996 San Francisco Duke 64-60
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11 seeds
A total of nine 11 seeds have won their second-round games and advanced to the Sweet 16. This compares to 14 in the men's tournament since 1994, with seven more occurring between 1985 and 1993.

Since no 14 seed has ever advanced to this point in the women's tournament, all defeated teams were 3 seeds.

Year Winner Loser Score
2012 Gonzaga Miami (FL) 65-54
Kansas Delaware 70-64
2011 Gonzaga UCLA 89-75
2010 San Diego State West Virginia 64-55
2004 UC Santa Barbara Houston 56-52
2003 Notre Dame Kansas State 59-53
2002 BYU Iowa State 75-69
2000 UAB Mississippi State 78-72
1996 Stephen F. Austin Clemson 9388 (OT)
biobioprof
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And both from the same conference where they split 3 head to head games.
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S16 deviations from chalk since going to 64 teams. Teams that made the E8 in bold.

2018 11 Buffalo, 11, C Michigan, 5 Duke, 6 Oregon St

2017 5 Ohio State, 10 Oregon, 12 Quinnipiac
2016 5 Miss State, 5 Florida State (sigh), 6 DePaul, 7 Washington, 7 Tennessee
2015 5 Texas, 7 Dayton, 11 Gonzaga
2014 12 BYU, 7 DePaul, 5 OK St, 7 LSU
2013 5 Louisville, 6 OU, 6 LSU, 12 Kansas, 6 Nebraska, 6 Delaware
2012 11 Kansas, 5 S. Carolina, 5 St Bonaventure, 11 Gonzaga
2011 5 Georgetown, 6 OU, 5 UNC, 11 Gonzaga, 7 Louisville, 5 Green Bay, 6 Georgia
2010 7 Miss State, 11 San Diego St, 5 Georgia, 7 Gonzaga
2009 6 Arizona St, 9 Mich St, 6 Purdue, 7 Rutgers
2008 5 Old Dominion, 6 G Washington, 6 Pitt, 5 Notre Dame
2007 5 G Washington, 13 Marist, 7 Ole Miss, 10 Florida State, 7 Bowling Green
2006 8 Boston College
2005 13 Liberty, 6 Georgia, 5 Arizona St, 5 Vanderbilt
2004 5 Notre Dame, 11 UCSB, 5 La Tech, 7 Minnesota, 6 Stanford
2003 6 Colorado, 5 Georgia, 6 New Mexico, 5 BC, 11 Notre Dame, 5 La Tech, 6 Minnesota
2002 7 Old Dominion, 11 BYU, 7 Drake
2001 5 SW Mo St, 6 Washington, 5 Utah, 10 Missouri
2000 5 OU, 5 UNC, 11 UAB
1999 none
1998 5 Rutgers, 9 Notre Dame, 9 Arkansas, 5 Kansas
1997 5 G Washington, 6 Notre Dame, 6 Vanderbilt
1996 12 San Francisco, 11 SFA, 6 Auburn
1995 7 NC State
1994 6 Alabama, 13 Texas A&M

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MidTnAg
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A 16th seeded team came close to making the men's Big Dance this year.
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Has never happened in the Women's NCAA Tournament.

Correction as pointed out later by biobioporf-- it has happened before:
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MidTnAg said:

A 16th seeded team came close to making the men's Big Dance this year.
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Must
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Cinderella

Has never happened in the Women's NCAA Tournament.
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If Big Dance refers to the NCAA then every 16 seed makes the dance by definition.

If you are talking about a 16 beating a 1, that happened in 1998 in the Women's NCAA Tournament when Harvard upset Stanford. Both UMBC and Harvard lost in the second round to a 9 seed.

The 9 seed that took out Harvard was Arkansas, coached by a guy you might have heard of: Gary Blair.
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BPI Predictions to reach the Final Four, National Championship game, and Win percentages (Seedings in parenthesis):

Connecticut (1) 71%, 51%, 37%
Notre Dame (1) 59%, 28%, 16%
Baylor (2) 51%, 28%, 16%
Mississippi State (1) 54%, 28%, 11%
Louisville (1) 34%, 20%, 6%
South Carolina (2) 18%, 8%, 4%
Oregon (2) 21%, 6%, 2%

In other words, it picked the field over Connecticut. WOW!
Is there another 2017 Morgan Williams & Mississippi State this year??? I definitely hope so.
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Please don't pull a Kennedy....
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