Bracketology and the Final Four
Posted by cuorange on February 19, 2010
Last week’s iteration had a Final Four of Kansas, Texas, Wisconsin and Syracuse. Lunardi has moved some teams to different regions this week, and coupled with Texas’ continued free fall, this has changed our projected Final Four.
Kansas wins the Midwest and Syracuse takes the West over Purdue/West Virginia. Our first non-number one seed advances in the South with Wisconsin, a projected #3, ousting Kentucky, and this is followed by projected 2 seed Duke beating Villanova.
I am one of the ones that don’t think Duke passes the eyeball test. On the other hand, the point of this exercise is to take the biases (against or for a certain team, such as Duke) out of the equation and when you do that the Blue Devils have really good numbers (like the #1 rated offensive efficiency for much of the year).
| Team | O Efficiency | D Efficiency | RPI | % Final Four | % Champ |
| Kansas | 2 | 3 | 1 | 100.0 | 83.3 |
| Duke | 1 | 12 | 4 | 37.5 | 33.3 |
| Syracuse | 13 | 6 | 2 | 12.5 | 0.0 |
| Wisconsin | 14 | 9 | 14 | 12.5 | 0.0 |
In the semi’s it would be Kansas over Syracuse in what could be an entertaining game and Duke over Wisconsin (who they’ve already lost to this season).
The final would be Kansas over Duke.
