Will 1975-76 Indiana be college basketball's last undefeated champion? Data explains odds, money has say

Pat Knight knew his father, legendary Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight , was on the decline in his battle with Alzheimer's when he forgot about his historic 1976 team. "That was my go-to conversation with him. If he wasn't having one of those days, I could get him going about the 1976 team," Pat said.

"And when he started forgetting them toward the last couple of years, I sensed the end would be coming soon because growing up, he talked about it all the time. " Knight and the Hoosiers went undefeated en route to winning a national championship 50 years ago. Indiana remains the last Division I men's basketball team to achieve that feat.

And it may take 450 years for it to happen again. In addition to the statistical improbability, NIL, the one-and-done rule and increased competition makes it harder for a team to finish a season undefeated. The math and the money for undefeated college basketball teams Duke, Michigan, Arizona and Florida were the four No.

1 seeds in this year's NCAA Tournament. No. 2-seed UConn beat Duke to reach the Final Four, and the Huskies will play third-seeded Illinois, which beat Houston and Iowa to advance.