ABSTRACT Building on previous investigations of the relationship between athletic success and school quality, we analyze the effect of appearances, wins, and surprise “Cinderella” runs in the NCAA men's basketball tournament on the peer assessment score of the U.S. News and World Report's annual rankings. We find that reaching the Sweet Sixteen is associated with a peer score increase of 0.3% for National Universities, which is almost equal to the average decline witnessed by National Universities. Peer scores increase by 2.2% for National Liberal Arts Colleges earning a Sweet Sixteen birth, which is 6.1 times the average decline in our National Liberal Arts Colleges sample. Schools making a Cinderella run see a positive boost relative to non‐Cinderella teams.
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