![]() STARS is completely voluntary, transparent, and based on self reporting. The mission statement of STARS details how it “is intended to engage and recognize the full spectrum of colleges and universities- from community colleges to research universities- and encompasses long-term sustainability goals for already high-achieving institutions as well as entry points of recognition for institutions that are taking first steps towards sustainability.” The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) uses its Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) to measure how successfully institutions have been performing in sustainability matters. The Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System The same metrics will be used to determine winners in this article that were used to determine the field for the previously described Green March Madness Tournament, so if you’ve already read that (or if you don’t care to read the methodology and just want to skip to the end to see if your school has bragging rights in this alternative method to crowning a champion) then feel free to skip over this recap of the three sets of metrics used to determine the rankings.Īfter research into the topic, I found three prominent third-party measurements that score and rank the efforts of institutions of higher learning in the United States to incorporate sustainable practices, energy-saving measures, and environmentally-friendly practices (with the latest version of each score pulled in later February 2018). Who would be the Cinderella teams, the major upsets, and the National Champion if all the players in the tournament lost their talent in a ‘Space Jam’-like incident and the winners of each game were instead determined by each school’s efforts towards sustainability, energy efficiency, and environmentalism? But now that the real 2018 field of teams has been set based on actual basketball measures, we can use the same sustainability ranking system play out the tournament if sustainability determined the winners. In setting the field this way, some teams made the tournament (and made deep runs) that would normally never get a chance in the actual NCAA Basketball Tournament (including crowning American University as ‘2018 Green March Madness Champion’). Energy efficiency is usually restricted to comparing washing machines or power generation, but what if each team in the NCAA Basketball Tournament was scored on the energy efficiency of its institution, as well as metrics ranking them on sustainability, environmental stewardship, and other ‘green’ factors?Ī few weeks ago, I posted an article that ranked all 351 schools eligible to participate in March Madness and showed what the field of 68 teams would look like if they were based on the average of three different sustainability scores. Rankings denote tournament seeding.When efficiency is brought up regarding basketball predictions, you’d typically expect to hear about offensive efficiency or defensive efficiency, statistics that measure how effectively a team or player scores or prevents others from scoring, respectively. ![]() Tiebreakers: win–loss record, head-to-head record, record against the highest ranked team outside of the tied teams, record against the second highest ranked team outside of the tied teams, etc. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The top four teams received a bye into the quarterfinals. Regular-season champion Cincinnati won the tournament and with it the league's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.Īll 12 conference teams participated in the conference tournament. It was held March 8–11, 2018, at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida. ![]() The 2018 American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament ended the 2017–18 season of the American Athletic Conference. ![]()
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