March Mathness Project

The worksheets shown below(the left hand column will have a live link when the worksheet is available), should be handed in to your instructor or submitted by e-mail as directed to on the dates shown. Each worksheet is worth 10 points (we will drop the lowest score). Worksheets that are handed in late will be graded out of 5 points (50\% of the grade) or less. In the case of illness or some catastrophe that prevents you from handing in your worksheet on time please present a note from First year of Studies or St. Liam's or have the university send notification of an excused absence if you wish your worksheet to be graded out of the original 10 points.

This project will count for 50 points out of the 450 points for the course.

These worksheets were created by Connor Voglewede for this class in 2013.

Homework

Worksheet

(Download from here)
Topic
Date Due
Submission

Collecting and processing some data using Excel.

Watching some short lectures on March Mathness in Udemy
Due Midnight Thurs. Jan 28

Submit the file(s) named
Your_Name_Worksheet 1
in an e-mail with subject
Your Name worksheet 1
to your grader Allison Gormley at agormley@nd.edu
Mathematica Tutorial
Due 11:59p.m. Thurs. Feb. 11

Submit the file(s) named
Your_Name_Worksheet 2
in an e-mail with subject
Your Name worksheet 2
to your grader Allison Gormley at agormley@nd.edu
Colley Ranking for your Conference
Due 11:59p.m. Thurs. Feb 18
Submit the file(s) named
Your_Name_Worksheet 3
in an e-mail with subject
Your Name worksheet 3
to your grader Allison Gormley at agormley@nd.edu
Massey Rankings for your conference
Due 11:59p.m. Mon. Feb. 29
Submit the file(s) named
Your_Name_Worksheet 4
in an e-mail with subject
Your Name worksheet 4
to your grader Allison Gormley at agormley@nd.edu

Conference Tournaments

Various Dates
Submit the file(s) named
Your_Name_Worksheet 5
in an e-mail with subject
Your Name worksheet 5
to your grader Allison Gormley at agormley@nd.edu
NCAA Tournament Bracket

Due 11:59p.m. Mar 16
Submit the file(s) named
Your_Name_Worksheet 6
in an e-mail with subject
Your Name worksheet 6
to your grader Allison Gormley at agormley@nd.edu
       
       
       
       

 

NCAA Tournament Schedule

March 13th: Selection Sunday

March 15th: Games Begin

March 17th: Rund of 64 Begins and brackets close
           

Schedule

Page Rank Algorithm

Here are the results of the page rank algorithm using the parameters which yielded the highest number of points on last year's data:

(you can download the excel file here)

 

Team Rank
 Virginia 1
 Kansas 2
 North_Carolina 3
 Michigan_St 4
 Oregon 5
 Iowa 6
 Kentucky 7
 West_Virginia 8
 Villanova 9
 Miami_FL 10
 California 11
 Indiana 12
 SMU 13
 Xavier 14
 Vanderbilt 15
 Texas_A&M 16
 Oklahoma 17
 Louisville 18
 Utah 19
 Purdue 20
 St_Joseph's_PA 21
 Connecticut 22
 Texas 23
 Duke 24
 Baylor 25
 Wichita_St 26
 Seton_Hall 27
 Iowa_St 28
 Gonzaga 29
 St_Mary's_CA 30
 Maryland 31
 Notre_Dame 32
 Arizona 33
 VA_Commonwealth 34
 William_&_Mary 35
 San_Diego_St 36
 Houston 37
 Wisconsin 38
 Northern_Iowa 39
 Cincinnati 40
 Tulsa 41
 Oklahoma_St 42
 Butler 43
 Iona 44
 SF_Austin 45
 Texas_Tech 46
 Pittsburgh 47
 Memphis 48
 Ark_Little_Rock 49
 UNC_Wilmington 50
 Florida_St 51
 BYU 52
 St_Bonaventure 53
 USC 54
 Akron 55
 Virginia_Tech 56
 G_Washington 57
 Creighton 58
 Hawaii 59
 S_Dakota_St 60
 Florida 61
 Colorado 62
 Davidson 63
 Monmouth_NJ 64
 Yale 65
 Valparaiso 66
 Old_Dominion 67
 South_Carolina 68
 Albany_NY 69
 Stony_Brook 70
 Long_Beach_St 71
 Providence 72
 Fresno_St 73
 Hofstra 74
 Princeton 75
 Dayton 76
 Oakland 77
 ULM 78
 WI_Green_Bay 79
 UCLA 80
 UNC_Asheville 81
 Wright_St 82
 Temple 83
 Ohio 84
 Syracuse 85
 Georgia 86
 Oregon_St 87
 Tennessee 88
 LSU 89
 Kansas_St 90
 Siena 91
 WKU 92
 IPFW 93
 Buffalo 94
 Georgia_Tech 95
 Illinois_St 96
 Michigan 97
 Chattanooga 98
 Richmond 99
 Marshall 100
 Ohio_St 101
 New_Mexico 102
 Vermont 103
 UC_Irvine 104
 Mississippi 105
 UAB 106
 Arizona_St 107
 Arkansas 108
 James_Madison 109
 Boise_St 110
 UNLV 111
 CS_Bakersfield 112
 Rhode_Island 113
 Stanford 114
 New_Mexico_St 115
 Santa_Barbara 116
 Evansville 117
 MTSU 118
 Winthrop 119
 E_Michigan 120
 Louisiana_Tech 121
 Wagner 122
 Montana 123
 Mississippi_St 124
 TN_Martin 125
 Towson 126
 Illinois 127
 Toledo 128
 UT_Arlington 129
 C_Michigan 130
 Nebraska 131
 N_Dakota_St 132
 Duquesne 133
 Colorado_St 134
 Alabama 135
 NC_State 136
 Clemson 137
 Bucknell 138
 Pepperdine 139
 Ball_St 140
 Grand_Canyon 141
 Murray_St 142
 Lehigh 143
 Weber_St 144
 Appalachian_St 145
 Miami_OH 146
 Washington 147
 ULL 148
 Indiana_St 149
 Penn_St 150
 North_Dakota 151
 FL_Gulf_Coast 152
 UNC_Greensboro 153
 Morehead_St 154
 ETSU 155
 North_Florida 156
 W_Carolina 157
 Norfolk_St 158
 Massachusetts 159
 George_Mason 160
 Belmont 161
 Tennessee_St 162
 Charlotte 163
 Utah_St 164
 Furman 165
 Columbia 166
 WI_Milwaukee 167
 N_Illinois 168
 Northwestern 169
 Southern_Univ 170
 Hampton 171
 Georgetown 172
 Kent 173
 TX_Southern 174
 Nevada 175
 Fairfield 176
 High_Point 177
 Coastal_Car 178
 Hartford 179
 Fordham 180
 La_Salle 181
 Col_Charleston 182
 Northeastern 183
 Idaho 184
 NE_Omaha 185
 Holy_Cross 186
 UTEP 187
 F_Dickinson 188
 Marquette 189
 W_Michigan 190
 E_Washington 191
 NJIT 192
 Wyoming 193
 Austin_Peay 194
 Boston_Univ 195
 E_Kentucky 196
 UC_Riverside 197
 Denver 198
 Navy 199
 Ga_Southern 200
 Army 201
 S_Illinois 202
 Long_Island 203
 Gardner_Webb 204
 San_Jose_St 205
 Wofford 206
 South_Florida 207
 Loyola-Chicago 208
 TAM_C._Christi 209
 Tennessee_Tech 210
 N_Kentucky 211
 IUPUI 212
 Mt_St_Mary's 213
 Morgan_St 214
 Canisius 215
 Harvard 216
 American_Univ 217
 Stetson 218
 Tulane 219
 St_Francis_NY 220
 Detroit 221
 TCU 222
 Idaho_St 223
 Georgia_St 224
 Rider 225
 Liberty 226
 Alabama_St 227
 Auburn 228
 Sam_Houston_St 229
 South_Alabama 230
 Sacred_Heart 231
 Alcorn_St 232
 St_Peter's 233
 Kennesaw 234
 Colgate 235
 Rice 236
 Portland 237
 Mercer 238
 Manhattan 239
 E_Illinois 240
 Elon 241
 East_Carolina 242
 Jackson_St 243
 Montana_St 244
 Portland_St 245
 S_Carolina_St 246
 Savannah_St 247
 NC_Central 248
 South_Dakota 249
 Bowling_Green 250
 Texas_St 251
 Missouri 252
 New_Hampshire 253
 St_Louis 254
 Minnesota 255
 Oral_Roberts 256
 Air_Force 257
 Bethune-Cookman 258
 San_Francisco 259
 Radford 260
 DePaul 261
 Lipscomb 262
 SE_Louisiana 263
 Dartmouth 264
 Wake_Forest 265
 Prairie_View 266
 Jacksonville 267
 Pacific 268
 Samford 269
 Cal_Poly_SLO 270
 North_Texas 271
 Longwood 272
 W_Illinois 273
 Incarnate_Word 274
 St_Francis_PA 275
 Washington_St 276
 Loy_Marymount 277
 Missouri_KC 278
 Florida_Intl 279
 Robert_Morris 280
 Alabama_A&M 281
 Marist 282
 CS_Sacramento 283
 Youngstown_St 284
 VMI 285
 Nicholls_St 286
 Cent_Arkansas 287
 San_Diego 288
 Arkansas_St 289
 N_Colorado 290
 Drexel 291
 Campbell 292
 Southern_Miss 293
 Seattle 294
 MD_E_Shore 295
 MA_Lowell 296
 Loyola_MD 297
 St_John's 298
 Coppin_St 299
 Missouri_St 300
 Penn 301
 Drake 302
 UCF 303
 Utah_Valley 304
 Binghamton 305
 Rutgers 306
 Boston_College 307
 Houston_Bap 308
 NC_A&T 309
 Quinnipiac 310
 Northwestern_LA 311
 New_Orleans 312
 Cornell 313
 FL_Atlantic 314
 Jacksonville_St 315
 Abilene_Chr 316
 Howard 317
 UC_Davis 318
 MS_Valley_St 319
 Maine 320
 Santa_Clara 321
 Lamar 322
 Delaware 323
 CS_Northridge 324
 Delaware_St 325
 McNeese_St 326
 UT_San_Antonio 327
 Edwardsville 328
 Cleveland_St 329
 Bryant 330
 Brown 331
 Northern_Arizona 332
 UMBC 333
 Troy 334
 CS_Fullerton 335
 Presbyterian 336
 Ark_Pine_Bluff 337
 UTRGV 338
 Southern_Utah 339
 IL_Chicago 340
 SC_Upstate 341
 Citadel 342
 Charleston_So 343
 SE_Missouri_St 344
 Lafayette 345
 Central_Conn 346
 Grambling 347
 Niagara 348
 Bradley 349
 Florida_A&M 350
 Chicago_St 351