Now that the UConn Huskies and Kentucky Wildcats have made the NCAA Tournament National Championship, it seems absurd to have considered them underdogs this whole time.

UConn entered as a seven-seed not even expected to make the Sweet 16 and Kentucky was the preseason favorite to win the title, but entered as an eight-seed. These two teams' title game matchup completely defies even the most sophisticated statistical model devised to predict a winner.

CBS will air the game at 9:10 p.m. EST. Here are the 9 most important numbers to consider in the March Madness title bought that seems to defy the numbers. (Source: USA Today).

1. 0.016 is the percentage of ESPN Bracket Challenge entrants who correctly predicted this title game matchup. Of the 11 million who filled out a bracket and digitally submitted it to ESPN, a little more than a thousand entrants predicted this matchup in the final.

2. 15 is the combined total of these two teams' seeds and is a new record-high . The last time UConn went to the NCAA Tournament Final, they were a three-seed and their opponent, Butler, was an eight-seed, marking the previous record.

3. 11 is the total consecutive NCAA Tournament games Kentucky has won. Incidentally, Kentucky's last tournament loss came in the 2011 Final Four, to UConn. 11 is also the amount of titles the UCLA Bruins have accumulated, which stands as the most all time.

4. 8 are the titles Kentucky has won and one more would inch the team closer to approaching UCLA's record.

5. 3 times the Huskies have been to the NCAA National Championship, all with Jim Calhoun, and 3 times they have won the title game. Kevin Ollie, Calhoun's handpicked successor, is the first coach in 25 years to reach the final game in his first year in the tournament.

6. 14 coaches have multiple National Championships and John Calipari is trying to make it 15. He would be just the fifth active coach to do so, joining Roy Williams, Billy Donovan, Rick Pitino and Mike Krzyzewski.

7. 48 years have passed since two teams played for the National Championship that were not in the NCAA Tournament the previous year. UConn was suspended for having low grade averages and Kentucky flat out did not make it.

8. 9 is the total amount of freshman on Kentucky's roster, three times the amount on UConn's. At least four Kentucky freshman will start versus at least four junior and senior UConn starters.

9. 50-50 are the statistical odds generated by Nate Silver, the statistician who devised the interactive bracket for his website FiveThirtyEight.com. Thanks to Willie Cauley-Stein being ruled out of playing in the game, Kentucky's odds dropped from 55-percent favorites to ever-so-slight 49.9-percent underdogs. With odds that close, Silver calls it a "true toss-up."