Originally posted by Madison Hamilton in McCombs Today.

Although The University of Texas at Austin is no longer in the NCAA Tournament, the school has won the title in accounting research.

Each year, Brigham Young University reformulates the March Madness bracket by ranking the teams based on their accounting departments’ productivity. Texas, which also won in 2010 and 2012, has prevailed again after defeating Ohio State in the accounting finals.

“This research ranking measures productivity in total, but what distinguishes UT is that our research has both depth and breadth across topics and methods, and contributes to both theory and application,” says Lillian Mills, Chair of the University’s Accounting Department. “In basketball language, we aren’t a team with a single outside shooter – we have such a deep roster that any one of my colleagues could be the star on another team.”

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