NCAA Men's College Basketball Scores Archive
This repository contains the scores of all games between two teams that were both classified as Division I by the NCAA during that year, with two different data files for each year. In one file, the data is blank delimited, and is in the form "date tm1 score1 tm2 score2 F" where: tm1 and tm2 are 3 letter, UPPERCASE acronyms (one per team/college); date is encoded as MDD, where M equals 2 for Nov, 3 for Dec, 4 for Jan, 5 for Feb, and 6 for March (this is so the file can be sorted on the first field on each line allowing the data to be arranged in the desired chronological order for one rating system I have); and the last character - F - denotes the site of the game for the first team: H indicates a Home game for them, A for a road game, and N for a "neutral site". (Please read the caveat regarding designation of "neutral".) The other file has the same format except that the date field is omitted as the scores are already in chronological order. The files containing the scores of the NCAA and NIT tournaments are also in chronological order (without the date field).
Each year has been "graded" on a scale from 1 (the best) down to 6 (the worst, though still extremely accurate!) as to the level of confidence that it contains the correct scores, etc, and more about this criterion can be found here. (Other years that do not yet appear below with an active URL have had > 95% of the scores entered, but they have not yet been verified, and therefore will not appear here in their entirety until they have been finalized.) A table listing the number of "sanctioned teams", and the number of games that appear in the files below, that include all the regular season games for these years, can be found here (with a brief caveat about the years 1987-88 to 1992-93). I hope to add another year or two of data to this archive each summer, going further back into the past, as I acquire more of the NCAA record books, to enlarge this repository for possible research activities. (Here is the errata page, which lists: when a data file was modified as well as what games were modified.)
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