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Old 03-16-2009, 06:12 PM   #511
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So hey, Basketball Prospectus has some valuable efficiency rankings that may help you figure out who's going to prevail in certain matchups.

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It's the Efficiency
Memphis is My Favorite

by John Gasaway

The NCAA selection committee likes to say they look at a team's "body of work." I do, too, it's just that for me the body of work is usually the conference season, the time of year when "home" and "road" are balanced and the schedule is not crafted by coaches but instead is dictated to them.

That's why Memphis poses a special challenge to any evaluation that leans on a team's in-conference results. The Tigers are an elite team in a middling conference. They dominate their league to an extent that no other team in the nation can match. What can be done in terms of measuring this team against the likes of Louisville, Pitt, North Carolina and Connecticut?

Let's start at the beginning. For any team, every possession in conference play is a test: score, then keep the other team from scoring. If we took all of the major-conference teams that received NCAA bids last night and tracked how well they did on each such "test" during league play, what would we find?
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