CBB

There is one basketball tournament that captivates America's attention like none other – NCAA March Madness. According to the official data from NCAA Division 1 Men's Basketball, between 1970 and 2018, the attendance figures have steadily crept up over the years at many schools, but this pattern has not been consistent throughout. Given the large sample of data available to us, I have limited my date range to more recent years between 2010 and 2018, to include the Top 5 teams every year in that date range.

The top-ranked colleges in the US also feature some of the most valuable CBB teams – but not always! Think Cornell, Harvard, Yale, Columbia – they’re Ivy League but their CBB teams are hardly that valuable in terms of their ability to win their division, let alone the NCAA Championships.