This page is dedicated to those looking for statistics, research and analytics to help you predict the tournament. As you all know, it is a tradition by the Lunatic to provide you all the schedules from all the games. At some point, I would love to extend this page to have more details. I think about the idea of getting box scores, rosters, play-by-play data and the statistician in me gets super excited. And then the reality sets in that it takes a ton of work to gather all that data (and make sure it is accurate.
All of the team level game summaries will be loaded here - which we have been gathering since 2013. I also have all the cheat sheets that we create once the tournament is setup. Then, I have added some really good external sites to look at for college basketball stats. I will include the NCAA Statistics Home, which is where I find the majority of my information. I figure that they are providing the Selection Committee information, so I might as well get the data directly from the source. Finally, when we get down to the Final 4, I will load the popular scenarios pages here so that you can check what champion can lead you to the best finish in the pool.
NCAA Statistics Website - this is the NCAA official site for all stats, inclusing NET Reports
NCAA NET Rankings - this is the main statistical model the selection committee usesKen Pomeroy's Basketball Rankings - he is considered one of the premier college basketball statisticians - with ratings based on points per possession
ESPN's BPI Basketball Rankings - Not a fan of the ESPN statistics team but their BPI and Strength of Record rankings both show up on the NCAA Team Sheets
Bart Torvik's Basketball Analytics Website - I have read from other sites that this is a great site of fun statistics.
Sports Reference College Basketball Site - Lots of general statistics, stat leaders, history of the polls, box scores, etc.
Warren Nolan College Basketball Stats - At some point, I remember seeing examples of the NCAA team sheets on this site - this is the home to his list of rankings and statistics
The Team Sheets used to also list the Jeff Sagarin predictive rankings and the Key Performance Indicator's KPI strength of record rankings. However, I can not find a link to the 2024 rankings - not sure if they have become subscription based, if they have stopped creating their rankings, or if I simply am horrible at doing a Google Search.
