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Message: [QUOTE="Scrutineer, post: 5211779, member: 8240"] Very interesting, BUT, if you title it "Rating 40 Years of men's [B]NCAA Tournament Champions[/B]" why give so much consideration to regular season records or league championships or talent? If you read the rationale for the rankings and how 2023 UConn was rated #32 while 1990 UNLV was rated #12 it seems there was an agenda. Of course I'm biased, but having a low seed, a difficult path to the title (higher total of all seeds played) and greater margin of victory seem more important when developing such a ranking than regular season record and talent level. Compare 2023 UConn and 1990 UNLV. UConn had 8 regular season losses while UNLV had 5, but in the NCAA tournament UNLV had a total margin of victory of 112 facing seeds totalling 54, while UConn's total had a total margin of victory of 120 facing seeds totalling 39. Larger margin of victory for UConn even thought they faced more highly rated opponents. I'd argue that a factor like the season's winning percentage or some other arbitrary factor could be used to move certain teams up or down to achieve the ranking you want some schools to obtain. Not sure what to make of it, but the only teams who beat opponents with a combined seed total of less than 30 were UConn in 2014 (28) and Villanova in 1985 (19) and 2016 (29). The 2004 UConn team may have been downgraded due to the high combined seed total which indicates their path to the NC was relatively easy. [/QUOTE]