The Luckiest BCS, High-Major Hoops Teams

As we do a lot here at BasketballProspectus.com, we’re going right to the stats to give you another blog. It’s Friday, so we’ll try to be as brief about the explanation as possible. BP.com has a whole bunch of great stats, and one of them is the luck factor. You can read all about it at the website, but basically it tallies the number of games a team won versus the number of games a team should have lost based on Pythagorean winning percentage and a whole bunch of other stuff. Discounting mid-majors, who are often more lucky than larger, BCS school, which ones are the most lucky. Here are the schools that we’ve come up with, based on the BP.com stats, plus our own secret recipe.

THE TOP TEN LUCKIEST BCS HOOPS TEAMS

1. Tennessee
2. Vanderbilt
3. Boise State
4. UNLV
5. Oklahoma
6. North Carolina
7. UCLA
8. Wisconsin
9. Texas
10. Notre Dame

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