This post has become painful for me following Baylor’s premature elimination from the women’s tournament, but I present it here anyway.
![The opening tip of the 2012 NCAA women's basketball championship game, played April 3, 2012. My Baylor Lady Bears, led by #42 Brittney Griner and #0 Odyssey Sims, defeated Notre Dame 80-61. Image: flickr user Han Shot First.](http://www.evelynjlamb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/7046993275_4bdeb89499-1-295x300.jpg)
The opening tip of the 2012 NCAA women’s basketball championship game, played April 3, 2012. My Baylor Lady Bears, led by #42 Brittney Griner and #0 Odyssey Sims, defeated Notre Dame 80-61. Image: flickr user Han Shot First.
As you’re working on your bracket, remember what CBS sports commentator Gregg Doyel wrote: “For teams with a realistic chance at winning multiple games in the NCAA tournament,…the worst seed to have is the No. 8 or the No. 9. That’s statistical certainty.” But is it? In a paper in the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports (I believe the full text is available with free registration), statisticians Tracy L. Morris and Faryal H. Bokhari tested that bold assertion.
Read the full post at Roots of Unity.
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