NCAA Tournament - Who's the Best Team? - Offensive & Defensive Ratings

Here are some stats that may help you with your bracket selections:

Top 10 teams in Offensive Efficiency:

1. Kansas
2. Texas
3. North Carolina
4. Oregon
5. UCLA
6. Drake
7. Duke
8. Tennessee
9. California
10. Pittsburgh

Other Notables(Rank): Notre Dame(11), UConn(14), Georgetown(16), Memphis(19), Louisville(41)

Top 10 teams in Defensive Efficiency

1. Wisconsin
2. Memphis
3. Kansas
4. UCLA
5. Louisville
6. Marquette
7. Virginia Tech
8. Georgetown
9. Stanford
10. Duke

Other Notables(Rank): North Carolina(20), Texas(32), Tennesse(34), UConn(40), Pitt(57), Notre Dame(61)

Finally, the Top 20 teams Overall Efficiency:

1. Kansas
2. UCLA
3. Memphis
4. Wisconsin
5. North Carolina
6. Duke
7. Texas
8. Georgetown
9. Louisville
10. Stanford
11. Washington St
12. Marquette
13. Clemson
14. Tennessee
15. Kansas St.
16. Texas A&M
17. Michigan St.
18. Xavier
19. Indiana
20. USC

Other Notables(Rank): UConn(21), Pitt(26), Notre Dame(27), Butler(32)

Just for reference here are the overall ranks of the Final 4 teams from the last four seasons, with the champion in italics:

2007: Florida(2), Ohio St(4), Georgetown(5), and UCLA(6)
2006: Florida(1), UCLA(3), LSU(10), George Mason(23)
2005: North Carolina(1), Illinois(2), Louisville(4), Michigan St(7)
2004: UConn(2), Duke(1), Oklahoma St(3), Georgia Tech(7)

So the trend in the last 4 years is for teams ranked in the overall Top 10 in efficiency to make then Final Four. The one exception was George Mason, which was a once in a lifetime run and their ranking of 23 wasn't all that bad.

Also, the # 1 or # 2 ranked team has won the championship the last 4 years but only once did they both make the Final Four. So that would say that either Kansas or UCLA would make the Final Four and win the whole tournament.