Interesting factoids on 2015 Sweet-16

[SoonerTraveler]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/surviv...ent-s-cinderella-less-sweet-16-050551500.html

Largest total victory margin through two games: Duke 48; Arizona 36; Kentucky 36; Gonzaga 29; Xavier 27.

Smallest total victory margin through two games: North Carolina State four; Notre Dame seven; Michigan State 13; Oklahoma 15; Louisville 15.

Sweet 16 coaches who have won a national title: Duke's Mike Krzyzewski (four); Louisville's Rick Pitino (two); North Carolina's Roy Williams (two); Michigan State's Tom Izzo (one); Kentucky's John Calipari (one). Plus UCLA's Steve Alford, who won one as a player at Indiana.

Sweet 16 coaches who have been to the Final Four: Krzyzewski (11); Pitino (seven); Williams (seven); Izzo (six); Calipari (three); West Virginia's Bob Huggins (two); Oklahoma's Lon Kruger (one); Wichita State's Gregg Marshall (one); and Wisconsin's Bo Ryan (one).

Records of teams against the Sweet 16: Arizona 5-0; Kentucky 3-0; Notre Dame 7-1; Wisconsin 3-1; Duke 7-3; West Virginia 2-1; Oklahoma 2-2; Gonzaga 1-1; North Carolina State 3-4; Utah 2-3; North Carolina 3-7; Louisville 1-5; UCLA 1-7; Wichita State 0-1; Michigan State 0-3; Xavier 0-0.

 

[skyvue]

Notre Dame had a really good season; I'm surprised they've struggled a bit so far in the tourney.

 

[coolm]

Notre Dame had a really good season; I'm surprised they've struggled a bit so far in the tourney.

yeah. I had really expected Notre Dame to blow away the competition with the way they were playing in their conf tourney. Then I watched them and they were less than impressive.

 

[pnkranger]

Look into the numbers a bit. Xavier played two teams with poor defenses (neither ranked in top 100 efficiency wise), while Michigan state played the 21st ranked defense and the 2nd ranked defense. OU played a top 25 defense in round 2.

Notre dame played a top 10 defense in butler in round 2 and had the opening game of the day on day 1. Wisconsin played the worst defensive team left in the bracket in both rounds.

Margin of victory is not at all important in this kind of sample size.

 

[chuckb]

yeah. I had really expected Notre Dame to blow away the competition with the way they were playing in their conf tourney. Then I watched them and they were less than impressive.

I'm not sure I agree. Butler is very good and tough and played their butts off in that game. To me, it's not a knock against Notre Dame that they barely won that game.

 

[coolm]

I'm not sure I agree. Butler is very good and tough and played their butts off in that game. To me, it's not a knock against Notre Dame that they barely won that game.

you certainly could be right there. I thought Butler played well. I had just seen ND play much stronger a week before. But maybe it was the competition.