wofford college

Over at The Sporting Blog, Andy Hutchins drops an interesting piece of trivia:

Wofford is small. How small, you ask? The school's enrollment is just under 1,500 students, which makes Wofford the second-smallest school to ever make the NCAA Tournament -- and makes the Terriers' 15-man roster about one percent of the student body.

Time to catch up on some math, since your fifth-period class doubtlessly spent the whole 50 minutes today watching basketball. Here's how Wofford stacks up against Florida (the largest school to have played in the 2010 NCAA Tournament so far).

Wofford: 1,439 students enrolled, 53 points scored in first round
Florida: 59,050 students enrolled, 92 points scored in first round

So! If distributed evenly, every student at Wofford would have about 0.04 points. Meanwhile, every Florida student would have about 0.002 points - 1/40th as many as the Terriers. The obvious conclusion to draw is that Wofford is far better than Florida, and is quite possibly the best school in the country per capita. Yet they are out of the tournament in the first round. Well, they don't call it March Per Capita Madness for nothing!