NCAA Seeds vs Reality: PSU, tOSU, OK St, & Iowa
NCAA Seeds vs Reality: PSU, tOSU, OK St, & Iowa
Penn State, Iowa, Oklahoma State and Ohio State all picked up team hardware at the 2017 NCAA Wrestling Championship in St. Louis. We take a look at how each team preformed in comparison to their seeds.
Wrestling fans have high expectations for their teams heading into the NCAA tournament each year. How each team's wrestlers are seeded plays a major role in setting those lofty hopes.
For this series, we're analyzing the team performances of all the top contenders at the 2017 tournament to see who stepped up last month in St. Louis and who came up short.
That would be Penn State, Ohio State, Oklahoma State and Iowa.
We tried to keep things as simple as possible. We ignored bonus points (but if an analysis of bonus points is what you're after, have no fear, we got you covered!). We also simplified the advancement points for ease of calculation. The actual advancement points may vary ever so slightly from the number we used depending on the round in which the wrestler entered the consolation bracket. We also ignored any projected advancement points for unseeded wrestlers, and, in order to balance that out, we also ignored any actual points form wrestlers that didn't advance passed the round of 24.
Also, if you'd rather just check out the only stat that really matters, the final team scores, you can skip straight to them by clicking right here.
For everyone else, the analysis can be found below.
Click here for a closer look at how Penn State was able to get the most out of their squad, as they went on a legendary back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back five win streak in the finals.
Click here to read more about Iowa's 2017 tournament and how the Hawkeyes outperformed their seeds in more instances than not.
Click here to take a deep dive into the Buckeyes' mixed bag of results from the year end tournament.
Click here as we investigate just want happened to John Smith and the Cowboys in St. Louis.
Keep checking back, as we continue our analysis of all the top teams and how their results compared to what was expected from them based on their seeds at the 2017 NCAA tournament.
For this series, we're analyzing the team performances of all the top contenders at the 2017 tournament to see who stepped up last month in St. Louis and who came up short.
Now Up: All Four Team Trophy Winners
That would be Penn State, Ohio State, Oklahoma State and Iowa.
We tried to keep things as simple as possible. We ignored bonus points (but if an analysis of bonus points is what you're after, have no fear, we got you covered!). We also simplified the advancement points for ease of calculation. The actual advancement points may vary ever so slightly from the number we used depending on the round in which the wrestler entered the consolation bracket. We also ignored any projected advancement points for unseeded wrestlers, and, in order to balance that out, we also ignored any actual points form wrestlers that didn't advance passed the round of 24.
Also, if you'd rather just check out the only stat that really matters, the final team scores, you can skip straight to them by clicking right here.
For everyone else, the analysis can be found below.
Penn State's Seed vs. Reality Score of +14.5
Click here for a closer look at how Penn State was able to get the most out of their squad, as they went on a legendary back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back five win streak in the finals.
Iowa's Seed vs. Reality Score: +4.5
Click here to read more about Iowa's 2017 tournament and how the Hawkeyes outperformed their seeds in more instances than not.
Ohio State's Seed vs. Reality Score: -3.5
Click here to take a deep dive into the Buckeyes' mixed bag of results from the year end tournament.
Oklahoma State's Seed vs. Reality Score: -14.5
Click here as we investigate just want happened to John Smith and the Cowboys in St. Louis.
Keep checking back, as we continue our analysis of all the top teams and how their results compared to what was expected from them based on their seeds at the 2017 NCAA tournament.