Sweet 16 Bracket Breakdown: More Stats
Let’s do something stupid. Let’s extrapolate from a very, very small sample size! With the NCAA tournament field whittled down to the final fourth, let’s take a look back at the first two rounds and see who’s played the best so far, and what this might mean as we move on to the next batch of games.
What’s the best way to assess who had the most impressive performances last week? Counting stats like points scored/allowed are distorted by a team’s pace, so simply looking at these traditional measures can miss the real story. Fast-breaking teams have more opportunities to rack up points and rebounds, but that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily better than their more deliberate counterparts. What was more remarkable: Kentucky dropping 90 points on Wake Forest or Cornell scoring 78 on Temple?
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