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History will be defied in March


One team in the past 10 years has won the National Championship with their offense outside of the top 20. Alabama is dangerously close, they’re at 19. UCLA’s is 22. Tennessee? 57. Kansas? 21.

In the top 10 of kenpom ranks, this leaves only Houston, UConn (???), Purdue, Texas, and Gonzaga. No team has won the championship with a strength of schedule outside of top 100 in the past 10 years. The only one outside of top 50 was Baylor in 2021, ranking 54th. Bye Houston.

Only one team has won the championship in the past 10 years with at least 8 losses, and it was the 7 seed winner Connecticut in 2013. Bye UConn and Texas.

Gonzaga’s defense is too terrible, no team has won in the past 20 years with it outside top 50. Gonzaga’s is 89.

That leaves Purdue, but no team has won with neither offense nor defense in the top 10 in kenpom in the past 10 years.

Someone will defy these marks this year, who will it be?

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