SAN DIEGO — When Butler fell a precious few inches short of winning a national championship in 2010, its players took the court during that season believing they were the most prepared team in the country. That faith rested in the coaching staff’s embrace of new statistical formulas that augmented what showed up on film and offered up ideas on the most efficient path toward victory.

But now, the advantages Butler had are all but gone.

Statistical analysis is not only widely embraced in college basketball, it is easily accessible.

For $19.95 a year, coaches — along with fans and the news media — can subscribe to the website of Ken Pomeroy, a basketball analytics guru whose equations strip down many of the variables that can cloud how effectively a team scores, rebounds and plays defense. For about $6,500 annually, teams can subscribe to Synergy Sports Technology, a video indexing service that can, with a few clicks, offer up how frequently a point guard takes a jump shot off a pick-and-roll.

When 16th-seeded Weber State played top-seeded Arizona on Friday, both had access to the same information. But that is about to change — and not in favor of the little guy.