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NCAA tourney performance - last 10 tournaments

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Here are the rankings of the Top 50 teams (and B1G teams) based solely on NCAA tournament appearances and wins over the last 10 tournaments (2020 is eliminated because of no tourney). No other factors (conf reg season or tourney titles, individual coach or player award, etc.) are factored in.

Dating back to the 2013 tourney, here's the scoring metric used:

1 pt - making tourney (1/2 pt for making the play-in game but losing in Dayton)

1 pt - winning round of 64 game

2 pts - winning round of 32 game (making S16)

2 pts - winning S16 game (making E8)

3 pts - winning E8 game (making F4)

5 pts - winning F4 game (making title game)

10 pts - winning championship

Based on that metric, Connecticut gets 24 pts for winning this year's title, SD St. gets 14 for making the title game, Miami & FAU get 9 for making F4, etc. Obviously you can quibble w/ the pts awarded, but this gives a fairly accurate measure of performance over a 10 year window, and rewards longer runs because those are remembered longer than teams that consistently make the tourney and lose early.

Here's how those numbers shake out after this year's tourney, for tournaments played from 2013 - 2023

(note: tie-breakers are determined by who had the longest run in that window, or who made it that far more often. So while Louisville & Wisconsin both had 37 pts, Louisville holds the tie-break because they won a title while Wisconsin's longest run was a loss in the title game - NCAA penalties notwithstanding. K-St, Fla St & Ohio St all have 16 pts and each made it to the E8 during this window, but KSU made it twice while FSU & OSU only did once - so they win that tie-break. FSU made 3 S16's while OSU only made 1, so FSU wins the next level tie-break over OSU).

1 Villanova 70
2 North Carolina 67
3 Gonzaga 62
4 Duke 60
5 Kansas 59
6 Michigan 53
7 Connecticut 52
8 Kentucky 44
9 Virginia 41
10 Baylor 40
11 Michigan State 39.5
12 Louisville 37*
13 Wisconsin 37*
14 Oregon 31
15 UCLA 30.5
16 Syracuse 29
17 Texas Tech 27
18 Florida 27
19 Arizona 27
20 San Diego State 26
21 Houston 25
22 Miami-FL 25
23 Purdue 22
24 Arkansas 21
25 Wichita State 20.5
26 Oklahoma 20
27 Iowa State 19
28 Xavier 18.5
29 Creighton 18
30 Notre Dame 17
31 Tennessee 17
32 Kansas State 16
33 Florida State 16
34 Ohio State 16
35 West Virginia 16
36 Auburn 15
37 Loyola-Chi 14
38 Texas 14
39 Maryland 13
40 Indiana 12
41 Butler 12
42t Marquette 11
42t Southern Cal 11
44 Alabama 11
45 Providence 10.5
46 Iowa 10.5
47 Dayton 10
48 Cincinnati 10
49 Virginia Commonwealth 10
50t Florida Atlantic 9
50t South Carolina 9
59t Illinois 7
75t Minnesota 5
86t Northwestern 4
116 Rutgers 2.5
119t Penn State 2
167t Nebraska

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