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NCAA Basketball Completion Percentages

During the lead-in to March Madness, the NCAA took a lot of fire for inequalities between the men’s and women’s workout space, swag bags and hotel facilities available for tournament participants.

Out of an abundance of caution, I looked into how many games the six best basketball conferences scheduled and played for their men’s and women’s basketball seasons. Keeping it to conference-only games meant the resources and restrictions around COVID-19 testing would be more likely to be equivalent for each team in the game, as well as having the same amount of scheduled match-ups for everyone in that conference.