If you're interested in this kind of stuff, Ken Pomeroy (kenpom.com) runs a fantastic basketball analytics site. He's a big proponent of what are called "tempo-free stats", which aim to filter out issues of playing speed from scoring (a team that plays quickly will score a lot of points, nearly independently of whether or not they are winning). Tempo-free stats instead count possessions; one interesting statistic is that the average team this year in college basketball produced 1.01 points per possession - such a tidy figure to emerge from the chaos.<p>In terms of predictions, one of the most interesting teams this year is Kansas (<a href="http://kenpom.com/team.php?team=Kansas" rel="nofollow">http://kenpom.com/team.php?team=Kansas</a>). They've only lost twice but have a large number of narrow home wins. Depending on how your algorithm treats those wins they either look like a team that will struggle to reach the sweet 16 or like a potential national champion.