Similar to what I have done for the baseball and softball teams, I set out to form a statistical profile for teams of ‘championship caliber’ in men’s and women’s basketball. For the sake of sample size and keeping the scope of the project tractable, I decided to use the NCAA tournament Elite Eight as the cut off.
After exploring options for obtaining data, I eventually settled on using sports-reference.com’s data portal Stathead to compile advanced statistics for players on these teams. Each roster was censored so that any player who appeared in fewer than 20 games in a season would not influence the results.