Bracket V - KenPom Plus Turnover Margin - Houston beats Marquette for Title

Note: click here for the bracket results for all 8 methods.

The following is the bracket based on putting an extra emphasis on turnover margin.

The following are the top 10 teams in the March Madness field based on turnover differential. This means the percent of the time they force a turnover by the other team minus the times they turn it over on offense.

After each team we list their starting point guard, who has the biggest impact on avoiding offensive turnovers, and then the defensive player who steals the ball the most often.

Rnk	Best TO Margin	TO Diff	Point Guard	Best Steals	Stl%
1	UCLA	8.5	Tyger Campbell	Jaylen Clark	5.1
2	Missouri	8.3	Sean East	D'Moi Hodge	5.2
3	Marquette	7.6	Tyler Kolek	Stevie Mitchell	4.2
4	Northwestern	6.9	Boo Buie	Chase Audige	4.3
5	Houston	6.9	Jamal Shead	Jamal Shead	3.4
6	Kent St.	6.3	Sincere Carry	Malique Jacobs	4.6
7	Texas	6.3	Marcus Carr	Marcus Carr	3
8	Virginia	6	Kihei Clark	Reece Beekman	3.5
9	N.C. State	5.7	Terquavion Smith	Jack Clark	3.8
10	Northern Kentucky	5.7	Xavier Rhodes	Sam Vinson	4.2
11	Iona	5.6	Daniss Jenkins	Walter Clayton	3.7
12	Iowa St.	5.3	Tamin Lipsey	Tamin Lipsey	4.5
13	Fairleigh Dickinson	5	Demetre Roberts	Sean Moore	3.6
14	TCU	4.8	Damion Baugh	Shahada Wells	3.7
15	VCU	4.6	Adrian Baldwin	Adrian Baldwin	3.9
16	Rutgers	4.5	Paul Mulcahy	Cam Spencer	4
17	Oral Roberts	4.4	Issac McBride	Patrick Mwamba	2.6
18	Iowa	4.4	Ahron Ulis	Tony Perkins	2.8
19	Tennessee	4.1	Santiago Vescovi	Zakai Zeigler	4.1
20	Arizona St.	3.7	Frankie Collins	Desmond Cambridge	3.6

Here is how the rest of the teams rank:

19*  Gonzaga 4.2 - accidentally left of table above

28* Saint Mary's 2.6 - accidentally left them off

48 Louisiana 0.6 - accidentally left them off

22           Nevada 3.5

23           Texas A&M Corpus Chris                2.9

24           Texas A&M          2.9

25           Memphis             2.7

26           Mississippi St.    2.7

27           Kansas  2.7

28           Vermont              2.6

29           Colgate 2.6

30           Charleston          2.6

31           Furman 2.6

32           Montana St.       2.5

33           West Virginia      2.4

34           Yale        2.2

35           Drake     2.2

36           Maryland             2.2

37           Arkansas              2.1

38           San Diego St.      2

39           Baylor   1.8

40           Kennesaw St.     1.7

41           Miami FL              1.7

42           Southeast Missouri St.   1.7

43           UC Santa Barbara             1.7

44           Florida Atlantic  1.6

45           Auburn 1.2

46           Boise St.               1

47           Kansas St.            0.7

48           Connecticut        0.5

49           Lafayette              0.4

50           Illinois   0.4

51           Clemson               0.3

52           Pittsburgh           0.3

53           Providence          0

54           USC        -0.1

55           North Carolina   -0.4

56           Penn St.                -0.5

57           Indiana -0.6

59           Kentucky             -0.6

60           Xavier    -1

61           Arizona -1.3

62           Utah St. -1.6

63           Duke      -1.6

64           Texas Southern  -1.6

65           Oklahoma St.     -1.7

66           Michigan St.       -1.7

67           Purdue -1.7

68           UNC Asheville    -2.1

69           Howard -2.2

70           Creighton            -2.3

71           Dayton -2.7

72           Princeton             -2.8

73           Alabama              -3.1

74           Grand Canyon   -3.3