The A-10 Tourney: Chaos is a Ladder

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Let’s be frank for a moment: the A-10 Tournament is a mess. A beautiful, sprawling, thoroughly unpredictable, and chaotic mess that we all love anyway. It’s quintessentially American when you think about it.
In case you haven’t been paying attention, the #1 seed more or less never wins this thing. It’s everything we love about March unless you happen to be the prohibitive favorite. In the past 15 years, the #1 ranked overall team has won the tournament only twice (SLU in 2013 and Temple in 2010). In fact, the #1 overall team has even made it to the championship game only four times in that span. The average seed of the champion has been 3.7. This is where regular champions go to die.
But there’s a lot to unpack in those seed lines. Xavier won the 2006 edition as the 10 seed despite statistically being the third-best team in conference. What we’d like to know is if there is a particular statistical profile or through-line that typifies the champions through the years. Below is a...

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