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Final Four teams win big, shoot and defend 2-pointers well

By Andy Glockner
ESPN.com

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

The beauty of college basketball is in the varied approaches, as contrasts in style and tempo make for entertaining evenings and frequent upsets that fuel the imagination. The truth about college basketball, though, is very simple: When evaluating the quality of teams, you should ignore the white noise from those one-off vignettes and focus on two larger-scale trends: • The best teams win by the greatest average margins (adjusted for schedule). • The best teams are among the b ...

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