How Predictable Is the Overall Voting Pattern in the NCAA Men's Basketball Post Tournament Poll?

摘要

After the completion of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) men's bas- ketball tournament in 1993,a poll of coaches was taken so those results-as well as those from the National Invitational Tournament (NIT)-could be considered when generating one final, subjective measure concerning that season's teams. Each year since then, this poll-as administered by ESPN/ USA Today-has placed the team that has won the NCAA tournament as its number-one team, and typically the runner-up in the championship game has finished in second place. The other two Final Four participants also are usually voted as the third and fourth teams, respectively.