It's finally here. It seems like yesterday I was putting out the introductory article yet here we are. I'm going to post everything in this article, so all the information will be in one spot. I'll also make the section headings larger than normal so you can find what you're looking for while scrolling.
With the conference regular season coming to a close, what a 'perfect' time to post a study of conference regular season results and how they foretell outcomes in the NCAA tournament. I personally believe that the conference regular season is the most important component of a team's resume. It's roughly a ten-week, two-game-per-week gauntlet against the teams with which you are most familiar. A game plan can be put together for any opponent on the schedule, but when you know an opponent inside-and-out, their strengths and weaknesses, their tendencies and values, all from the 1-3 schedule-collisions each and every year, the game plan goes to a deeper level. Surely, the in-depth understanding between conference opponents and the results from their contests should reveal valuable insights into the true quality of those teams, and that's what I hope to extract with this study.
