Weighted Efficiency Margin Makes It’s Debut, Plus Hot Games Tonight

Have you ever heard of WEM, Weighted Efficiency Margin? Well get use dot hearing it a bunch around the Final Four Blog. Luke Winn, a blog regular here, has come up with a new statistical measurement of a team’s performance in their conference games.  He basically takes the strength of a conference and compares that to how well the team is doing within their conference games.  This is a good way of determining which teams are getting hotter as the last half of the season terminates. For example, UConn comes from one of the best (if not the best) conference in the land, the Big East. Because they’ve done so well in-conference, and they’ve been playing against good teams the whole while, they have the highest WEM in the NCAA at +0.20. Luke Winn also uses this to try to highlight teams that have slipped under the national sports media radar, like Memphis, Missouri, Villanova and Utah State.

If you could get tickets to any college hoops game tonight, what would it be?  Here are our top nine:

North Carolina - North Carolina State
Penn St. – Illinois
Louisville - Providence
Miami – Akron
Notre Dame – West Virginia
Florida – Alabama
South Carolina – Mississippi State
Virginia – Virginia Tech
UNLV – Wyoming

To get NCAA basketball tickets, go to StubHub.com.

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