Now that 52 games of the NCAA Tournament are in the books, we come to the Sweet 16. Despite all the crazy upsets and close calls, we are left with 15 power conference teams and one perennial power-house of a “mid-major” team in Gonzaga. Using the resulting 52 games, we are able to update the…
A simple method of visualizing NBA offenses and defenses is through the use of summary statistics. This gives us a look at the average offensive and defensive game for any given NBA team. For sports such as MLB, NFL, and NBA, this gives us a representative glimpse at a team’s ability to play. In other…
At the close of the Pelicans – Warriors game tonight, we witnessed the Warriors set the record for fastest team to 60 wins with a 125 – 107 rout in Oakland. With the Warriors moving to 60-6 for the season with 16 games to go, the 72-10 record seems very well within their grasp. However,…
Now that the field of 68 has been set, the next question is who will be lucky enough to win the NCAA Tournament? This has been the year of parity as we have seen a bevy of teams fall from the #1 ranking throughout the season. Also, this season features the most number of losses…
Now that the conference tournaments have wrapped up, we are left to identify who is in and who is out. Many analysts use RPI, gut feelings, and perceived “key wins” to help them identify a top 36 team “At-Large” seeding. Others such as Lunardi, Massey, and Colley, incorporate metrics observed based on wins, points, locations,…
Only five games remain for the conference tournaments. As we are under 24 hours from the selection committee’s announcements, we have a couple remaining games to resolve. Recently, Buffalo knocked off Akron to capture the Mid-American conference championship; Cal. State Bakersfield wrestled away the Western Athletic conference from New Mexico State; and San Diego State…
As all the power conferences play their bulk of the games, we start to see the final shuffle of teams take place; each jockeying for one of the precious 68 spots in the NCAA tournament. Over the past day, no new major upsets took place other than University of Alabama Birmingham’s loss to Western Kentucky.…
With Selection Sunday only four (FOUR!) days away, we have witnessed some amazing upsets in several conferences. Dominant Valparaiso was stunned by University of Wisconsin – Green Bay in the Horizon League as the Phoenix marched their way into the NCAA playoffs for the first time in 20 years. Monmouth was upended in the Metro…
As the regular season comes to a close today with Big Ten action, we start to turn our focus to the conference tournaments. In this edition, we take a look at all 32 conferences and identify the current state of the NCAA tournaments, as defined by our ranking algorithms. Conferences are broken down as follows:…
Creeping into March, the Atlantic Sun and Patriot League Conference Tournaments have kicked off. Meanwhile another set of 62 NCAA Division I Mean’s basketball games have taken place since Sunday. We witnessed #5 Xavier come fresh off a victory against top ranked #1 Villanova only to fall 81-90 to Seton Hall. #8 Iowa continued…
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