Context
This is an accumulation of the Preseason Top 25 teams in NCAA D-I basketball over the past ten years and how they finished in the tournament that year. This data was scraped from a compilation of NCAA websites and bracket sites. I used a combination of Excel web data collecting software to collect year, team, and ranking data. The tournament round was created by me after going through 10 years of completed brackets and converting the result into the furthest round the team got. A lot of the process was done with my own hands and eyes so I apologize for any mistakes.
Content
Each row includes the year, the team name, their ranking at the beginning of the year, and the furthest round in the tournament they achieved. For example, if they lost their first game, their round value is 1. If they lost their second game, their round value is 2. This continues. The winner of the tournament has round value of 7. If a team failed to make the tournament, their round value is 0.
Acknowledgements
Source for rankings: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/rankings/_/year/2019
Inspiration
Hope to create a similar dataset for NCAA football and compare how the top 25 teams finish in their respective seasons.