NY Times article ranking 40 years of NCAA Tournament champions
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Ranking 40 years of men’s NCAA Tournament champions, from 2024 UConn to 1985 Villanova
The best of the best separated themselves with their season-long dominance and emphatic victories in their six-game NCAA Tournament journey.
www.nytimes.com
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IMO 2010 Duke was one of the worst Champs ever. Ranking them 18th is a joke. The teams they beat were a complete joke in a really down year overall.
2024 UConn #1 is also a joke. Yes, they were the best team and dominant vs their competition, but that team doesn't beat half the other champs. Which brings up the fallacy of these rankings. Dominating in a weak year with no super star players and playing a bunch of low seeds shouldn't trump being a 3 seed in a loaded year with super star players running through a bunch of high seeds.
2024 UConn #1 is also a joke. Yes, they were the best team and dominant vs their competition, but that team doesn't beat half the other champs. Which brings up the fallacy of these rankings. Dominating in a weak year with no super star players and playing a bunch of low seeds shouldn't trump being a 3 seed in a loaded year with super star players running through a bunch of high seeds.
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Methodology usually can be criticized.
The Orange(men) '03 don't seem to gain much by tying for 5th in the ranking of seeds beaten category.
'85 'Nova's run is really highlighted by how many top seeds they beat: two #2's and two #1's!
Incredible.
Yet they are ranked at the bottom of the list.
The Orange(men) '03 don't seem to gain much by tying for 5th in the ranking of seeds beaten category.
'85 'Nova's run is really highlighted by how many top seeds they beat: two #2's and two #1's!
Incredible.
Yet they are ranked at the bottom of the list.
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I get Nova because of their seeding. A 1 seed vs an 8 seed is a big gap. However a 1 vs a 3 is splitting hairs.
I think the ranking didn't take enough account of who you beat and the players that you had.
Last year's UConn team was dominate all year, but would a UConn fan really say that team was better than all of their other championship teams?
