About a month ago I wrote an article here analyzing some of the top teams’ adjusted-offensive efficiency and adjusted-defensive efficiency. Based on the analysis from the beginning of February, Villanova had some work ahead of them if they wanted to fit the trend of past champions. Now that the season has finished, let’s take a look at how the past champions were ranked entering the big dance.
Note: 2014 UConn was not included in the graph (80 AdjO, 11 AdjD) for the sake of compactness. Duke in 2010 and Kansas in 2008 were not included because accurate data could not be acquired from the WayBack Internet Archive.