NAME: NCAA Basketball Tournament Data
TYPE: Census
SIZE: 1706 Observations, 5 Variables (3 numeric, 2 character)

DESCRIPTIVE ABSTRACT:
This data set contains every NCAA Basketball Tournament game 
ever played. The tournament has been held every year since 1939.

SOURCES:
Years 1939-1990 were obtained from "The Encyclopedia of the NCAA
Basketball Tournament", by Jim Savage, Dell Publishing, NY,NY (1990).
Years 1991-1995 were obtained from selected major U.S. newspapers.

VARIABLE DESCRIPTIONS:
Year           Columns 1-4
Winning School Columns 6-24
Winning Score  Columns 25-27
Losing School  Columns 29-47
Losing Score   Columns 48-50

SPECIAL NOTES:
The last game listed for each year is the championship game.

STORY BEHIND THE DATA:
Author had some free time, and was interested in trends over
time in the scores of games, as well as how individual schools
have fared over the years.

PEDAGOGICAL NOTES:

1) Excellent for teaching course in SAS (from my experiences),
in terms that it allows for interesting subsetting examples.
(All games lost by NORTH CAROLINA, all championship games,
all games where winning team scored over 100, etc.)

2) Allows for comparisons (by decade, before and after rules 
changes, etc)

3) The Total score of the game is a variable whose distribution
is well modelled by a Normal distribution (does well on Pearson
goodness of fit test, not well on smooth test), so allows for neat
sampling examples, where each student could take there own sample
and inferential procedures can be used 'in repeated sampling'.

4) A subject that virtually anyone can relate to.

SUBMITTED BY:
Larry Winner
Department of Statistics, University of Florida
103 Griffin/Floyd Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611
winner@stat.ufl.edu