How to pick your NCAA tournament bracket based on team mascots
How to pick your NCAA tournament bracket based on team mascots
In an alternative universe, the NCAA trial-and-by-side tournament decides, with the mascot of each school serving as its champion.
Mascot basketball, as we all know, is sport in its purest form. Exhibition and:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xurttqnvs28
As long as this becomes acceptable in this universe, we just have to imagine. Or we could take a detailed statistical dive into the success of the NCAA tournament of each type of mascot and pretend to be the teams of Fuzza Character encouraging the side line with a tangible impact on the performance of the team in Madness March.
Let’s do it.
We looked at all 306 schools that have been playing the NCAA tournament game since 1985 (the beginning of the modern tournament format) and dividing their mascots into nine categories:
Bears, birds, cats, dogs, various, mythical, other animals, humans, weather/elementary.
While most mascots fit easily into one of these categories, some were more complicated, so in these cases we have sought the history of the origin of the mascot. For example, while the mascot is in North Carolina Tar Heels’ Mascot RAM, there are two stories about how tar heels have gained their nickname-both of them are about people. Thus, tar heels fall into the category of our people.
Here’s what we found:
People are the most common masks. Of the 306 teams playing at the NCAA tournament since 1985, 91 had human mascots, from North Carolina and Aggies to Hawai Rainbow Warriors. After the 2024 tournament is the most common name mascot link between Tigers (Jackson State, Tennessee State, Texas Southern, Towson, Pacific, Princeton, Clemson, Auburn, LSU, Missouri, Memphis and Grambling State) ASHALE.
| Mascot | The number of teams | Victory | losses | Winning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| People | 91 | 708 | 780 | 47.6 |
| Cats | 49 | 412 | 411 | 50.1 |
| Birds | 49 | 299 | 321 | 48.2 |
| Other animals | 46 | 334 | 329 | 50.4 |
| Canine | 29 | 248 | 228 | 52.1 |
| Mythical | 14 | 133 | 98 | 57.6 |
| Bears | 12 | 91 | 91 | 50 |
| Weather/element | 9 | 98 | 97 | 50.3 |
| Mixed | 7 | 133 | 101 | 56.8 |
When it comes to winning games, mythical and various teams will appear.
The metic category includes the five -fold national champion of the Duke Blue Devils (and the National National Champion Central Connecticut Blue Devils). The 14 Teams in That Category HAVE Played 231 Games and Are 133-98 (57.6 Percent) in the Tournament Since 1985, Though Shat Might (SEE: IS) Heavily Skewed by Duke’s NCAA-Leading and Final Four Since 1985, and the Next-Winningest Team in the Category Would Be The Depoul Blue Demons, WHO are 7-9 in Madness Play.
Different teams have a little more parity, with Ohio State Buckeyes, Stanford Cardinal, Syracus Orange and Wichita State Shockers who have a two -digit NCAA tournament. This category as a whole is in the tournament 133-101 (56.8 percent).
Different teams are even more impressive when you look at how many victories each category has on the team.
This is because Miscecelaneous includes only seven teams: Louisiana Ragin ‘Cajuns (real pepper), Harvard Crimson (color), western Kentucky Hilltoppers (And … something?), Wichita State Shockers (Anthropomorphic bundle of wheat), Stanford Cardinal (A tree directly from your nightmares), Ohio State Buckeyes (poison) and Syracus Orange (A happy piece of fruit).
Combined, seven different units have 103 performances of the NCAA tournament. They were at 10 finals (Syracuse five times, Ohio State three times, Stanford and Wichita State once) and won one title since 1985: Syracuses in 2003 (Ohio State won in 1960 before the tournament expand).
Here is a complete division of Mascot vs. Mascot Records:
| vs. bears | vs. birds | vs. cats | vs. canine | vs. MISC. | vs. mythical | vs. other | vs. people | vs. w/e | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bears | 1-1 | 8-6 | 20-18 | 7-13 | 2-4 | 5-8 | 13-16 | 27-22 | 8-3 |
| Birds | 6-8 | 35-35 | 54-61 | 21-29 | 13-11 | 22-19 | 44-43 | 99-107 | 5-8 |
| Cats | 18-20 | 61-54 | 63-63 | 31-41 | 15-22 | 13-17 | 54-58 | 139-115 | 18-21 |
| Canine | 13-7 | 29-21 | 41-31 | 26-26 | 12-18 | 5-14 | 35-32 | 77-66 | 10-8 |
| Misc. | 4-2 | 11-13 | 22-15 | 18-12 | 4-4 | 7-3 | 18-14 | 45-31 | 4-7 |
| Mythical | 8-5 | 19-22 | 17-13 | 14-5 | 3-7 | 3-3 | 21-12 | 41-30 | 7-1 |
| Other | 16-13 | 43-44 | 58-54 | 32-35 | 14-18 | 12-21 | 41-41 | 108-86 | 10-17 |
| People | 22-27 | 107-99 | 115-139 | 71-77 | 31-45 | 30-41 | 86-108 | 215-215 | 31-29 |
| W / e | 3-8 | 8-5 | 21-18 | 8-10 | 7-4 | 1-7 | 17-10 | 29-31 | 4-4 |
Other fun facts from the data:
- The most one-sided match is the leadership of 7-1 mythical teams over the weather/elementary team teams, although the ability of demons to control the weather and fire is not surprising.
- Dogs are 41-31 (56.9 percent) against cats in a tournament that settles this sport once and for all, right?
- Bird teams are 5-8 against weather/elementary teams. Cyclons took off Redbirds, Eagles and Redhawks.
- On the other hand, the warriors of naval warriors get quite well against the harsh waves. Midshipmen, Pirates and Spartans (they had ships, gave us a break) all survived hurricanes and cyclones.
Finally, when it comes to the title of the title, it is good to be wild. Villanova (1985, 2016, 2018), Kentucky (1996, 1998, 2012) and Arizona (1997) have been 7-3 in the championship games since 1985, although Virginia has secured the eighth championship for people in 2019. Dogs have six titles thanks to the Uconnu Championship.
So what to take, besides realizing that masks have absolutely no impact on the NCAA tournament?
If you want to choose a holder in the hope that the mascots themselves will be taken by the court … Well, you probably shouldn’t choose the holders. But if you insist, go with demons and anthropomorphic food.
