After writing a few, shall we say, exploratory articles trying to find a good statistical snapshot of team performance for Oregon’s basketball teams last summer, I think the best set of metrics I looked at was comparisons to NCAA Tournament Elite Eight teams. We’re in the heart of summer, so I thought it constructive to run the analysis again for the last five years of competition.
All of the numbers I use in this article come courtesy of sports-reference.com’s data portal Stathead to compile advanced statistics for players on these teams.
I’ll go over the summary descriptions for the metrics I chose to use, each of which is a rather involved formula.