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…
After yet another chaotic Saturday in the NCAA, we witnessed seven top 10 seeds come away with a 3-4 record. Utah (23-7; 12-5 Pac-12) continued its strong run with a six point victory over Arizona (22-7; 10-6 Pac-12). Virginia (22-6; 11-5 ACC) bounced back from its loss to Miami (23-5; 12-4 ACC) to gain a…
After another three days, the season returned to its wild form as Top 10 teams went a combined 3-3. #5 Xavier exorcised its demons against #1 Villanova in a 90-83 win on Wednesday, February 24th. On the same night, #9 Arizona dropped a 72-75 contest in Colorado. The big game of that night was the…
As another three days have passed, only 76 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball games have been played. In total, 8 of the 76 games involved ranked opponents; one of which resulted in a #12 Miami 64 – 61 victory over #3 Virginia on February 22nd. With only seven days before the first Conference Tournament…
Another 3 days, another 214 NCAA Division I Men’s basketball games played. This time around, the NCAA Top 10 teams have a relatively standard half-week as they compiled a 6-2 record. The two losses coming from #10 West Virginia (20-7) losing to #3 Oklahoma (21-5), 62-76, in Morgantown, WV on the 20th; and from #6…
After 143 NCAA Division I Men’s basketball games were played four days ago, another 118 games have been played and yet another set of potential number one seeds have fallen. Texas Tech (15-9) picked up a 65-63 win over #3 Oklahoma (20-4) in Lubbock, Texas. The same night, #4 Iowa (20-6) fell to a then-sub-.500…
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