2011 First Weekend NEM

Here is a complete list of all NCAA Tournament teams with their combined net efficiency margin (NEM) through the first week. (I excluded the First Four games to avoid skewing the totals.) As a reminder, net efficiency margin measures a team's performance in a game in points per 100 possessions (the "efficiency" part) compared to how a hypothetical average team would have performed against the same opponent (the "net" part). Factoring out the tempo and opponent allows comparison of teams' performance from the same baseline. I posted reviews of the best performances from what I like to call rounds one and two earlier.

Teams are grouped by the number of games played, then ranked by their total NEM for the tournament. The numbers are totals across all games. Larger numbers are better for total and offensive NEM, and smaller numbers are better for defensive NEM. Shaded teams are still alive after the first two rounds.

Seed	Region	Team	Games	Total	Off	Def
1	E	Ohio St.	2	111.3	76.9	-34.4
11	MW	Virginia Commonwealth	2	105.0	81.8	-23.2
3	W	Connecticut	2	93.7	59.1	-34.6
8	W	Michigan	2	93.5	54.0	-39.5
10	MW	Florida St.	2	79.4	23.4	-56.0
1	W	Duke	2	78.1	57.9	-20.2
1	MW	Kansas	2	72.8	29.7	-43.1
4	SE	Wisconsin	2	72.6	60.5	-12.1
2	SE	Florida	2	72.2	47.4	-24.8
3	SE	Brigham Young	2	70.2	32.5	-37.7
11	E	Marquette	2	67.3	23.0	-44.3
12	MW	Richmond	2	63.0	50.0	-13.0
2	W	San Diego St.	2	60.9	19.1	-41.7
1	SE	Pittsburgh	2	52.0	37.1	-14.9
5	SE	Kansas St.	2	50.7	44.8	-5.9
8	SE	Butler	2	49.2	33.9	-15.3
13	E	Princeton	1	24.1	14.0	-10.1
6	W	Cincinnati	2	48.0	28.6	-19.4
9	MW	Illinois	2	47.4	23.8	-23.6
4	E	Kentucky	2	46.4	33.3	-13.2
13	W	Oakland	1	22.9	28.3	5.4
5	E	West Virginia	2	45.2	47.6	2.4
3	E	Syracuse	2	44.5	24.7	-19.8
2	E	North Carolina	2	44.0	26.7	-17.2
5	W	Arizona	2	39.9	29.8	-10.0
7	E	Washington	2	39.7	42.1	2.3
10	E	Georgia	1	19.2	11.1	-8.0
7	W	Temple	2	37.2	22.2	-15.0
4	W	Texas	2	35.2	22.6	-12.6
12	W	Memphis	1	17.1	10.0	-7.1
11	SE	Gonzaga	2	33.1	34.8	1.8
7	SE	UCLA	2	29.2	25.2	-4.0
14	SE	Wofford	1	14.2	-1.8	-16.0
10	W	Penn St.	1	13.7	17.4	3.7
9	E	Villanova	1	12.9	-0.2	-13.1
10	SE	Michigan St.	1	11.8	10.9	-0.8
9	SE	Old Dominion	1	11.6	2.4	-9.2
12	SE	Utah St.	1	10.9	13.2	2.3
5	MW	Vanderbilt	1	10.8	27.9	17.1
15	MW	Akron	1	9.6	-11.7	-21.3
3	MW	Purdue	2	19.1	23.7	4.5
15	E	Long Island	1	9.0	4.7	-4.3
12	E	Clemson	1	8.9	22.8	14.0
8	E	George Mason	2	16.2	17.2	1.0
2	MW	Notre Dame	2	13.9	8.0	-5.9
13	MW	Morehead St.	2	12.3	-5.0	-17.3
4	MW	Louisville	1	5.4	-7.4	-12.8
13	SE	Belmont	1	4.8	0.4	-4.4
8	MW	Nevada Las Vegas	1	4.0	5.6	1.6
7	MW	Texas A&M	1	3.5	-2.2	-5.7
16	MW	Boston University	1	2.1	-6.2	-8.3
6	E	Xavier	1	1.3	-8.3	-9.6
14	E	Indiana St.	1	-1.1	3.1	4.2
15	W	Northern Colorado	1	-2.7	-4.6	-1.9
11	W	Missouri	1	-3.0	7.8	10.8
6	SE	St. John's	1	-3.1	12.4	15.5
14	MW	St. Peter's	1	-5.2	-22.4	-17.2
16	SE	NC Asheville	1	-7.6	-10.2	-2.5
16	E	Texas San Antonio	1	-12.8	-8.6	4.2
15	SE	UC Santa Barbara	1	-19.7	-13.2	6.4
6	MW	Georgetown	1	-20.3	-10.3	10.0
14	W	Bucknell	1	-24.4	-7.2	17.2
16	W	Hampton	1	-28.6	-19.3	9.2
9	W	Tennessee	1	-30.3	-23.5	6.8