Most Dominant Tournament Team?

North Carolina had a great run through this year's NCAA Tournament, winning every game by double digits. So how does this rank in terms of the champions' runs in recent history? I did a little number crunching to find out.

UNC beat Radford by 43, LSU by 14, Gonzaga by 21, Oklahoma by 12, Villanova by 14 and Michigan State by 17. That's an average margin of victory of 20.1 points per game.

Here's how past champions did:

2008, Kansas - 13.8
2007, Florida - 14.1
2006, Florida - 14.3
2005, UNC - 13.8
2004, UConn - 13.3
2003, Syracuse - 9.0
2002, Maryland - 14.0
2001, Duke - 16.6
2000, Michigan St. - 15.3
1999, UConn - 11.8

As you can see, in the last 10 years, no one has even come close to the dominance that UNC had in this year's Tournament. Carolina won each game by an average of about 6 points more than most National Champions from the past decade. In fact, the only team with a bigger overall margin of victory in the Tournament was Kentucky in 1996, at 129 points.

Let the debate begin!