In this table I have created in excel I am comparing data between the current top 25 ranked
NCAA men’s basketball teams1. Given that this is the time of the year in which the NCAA basketball
tournament takes place, being able to properly sort this data could be a major benefit to people who are
investing a lot of money on their brackets that they are creating the tournament. I made the columns
the different types of statistics being displayed, and I made the rows the team names in order from 1st
to 25th. This allows me to be able to sort the teams in order not just by rank, but also by any of the stats
listed. I specifically looked more in depth into points per game for each team to see if there was any
correlation between points per game and ranking. My results were that there was virtually no trend
shown between the two factors.
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Link to excel sheet here
Points/Game
84
82
80
78
76
74
72
70
68
66
64
Kansas
Michigan State
UNC
Virginia
Oregon
Villinova
Oklahoma
West Virginia
Xavier
Miami
Kentuky
Purdue
Utah
Indiana
Texas A&M
Louisville
Arizona
Maryland
Duke
Seton Hall
Baylor
Iowa State
California U.
SMU
Iowa
Points/Game
I think that this bar graph is a good way to visualize the correlation between points per game and team
rank. It is easy to read the points/game values, and clearly displays any relationship, or lack thereof,
between the two inputs.
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Source: http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/rankings