Maybe in the SEC. Two years ago (05-06) Syracuse finished tied for 9th in the Big East and not only advanced to the Big East final but won the tournament. Hell, I thought he meany only number 6 seeds. Other big Ten lesser seeds in the finals I can recall. #11 Illinois in 99, #9 Iowa in 02, #8 Ohio State in 03, #10 Illinois in 08. Nope, OMC's somewhat right. They split the seeding up in half for the SEC. So there are two 1 seeds, two 2 seeds, and so on. The sixth seed is the lowest seed in the SEC, so it would be equivalent to the lowest seed in any conference making the title game. Georgia's the first SEC school to ever accomplish that. Like you mentioned, Illinois did the same thing back in 99.