Fouls differential bracket
Those wacky intellectuals over at our subsidiary, the New York Times, has created a bracket based on team foul differentials. I think it's meaningless in it's methodology, but because they have Oklahoma going to the final game, I think they're brilliant.
Fouls, a Fair Way to Predict a Champion
Connecticut drew fewer fouls per game than any team in at least a decade (12.1 during the regular season). That helped the Huskies average 8.5 fewer fouls than its opponent each game — easily the biggest foul differential in the country. It helped UConn to shoot 773 free throws while opponents shot only 337. Does it matter? Seven of the past eight national champions, including UConn in 1999 and 2004, had foul differentials of 2.6 or higher. In this year’s field, only 11 teams have a plus-2.6 rate or better. Will one of them win the title?
http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/fouls-a-fair-way-to-predict-a-champion/
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