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Ncaa Tournament Games: The Real Nitty-Gritty, B. Jay Coleman, Allen K. Lynch
Ncaa Tournament Games: The Real Nitty-Gritty, B. Jay Coleman, Allen K. Lynch
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The NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee annually selects its national championship tournament's at-large invitees, and assigns seeds to all participants. As part of its deliberations, the Committee is provided a so-called "nitty-gritty report" for each team, containing numerous team performance statistics. Many elements of this report receive a great deal of attention by the media and fans as the tournament nears, including a team's Ratings Percentage Index (or RPI), overall record, conference record, non-conference record, strength of schedule, record in its last 10 games, etc. However, few previous studies have evaluated the degree to which these factors are related …