The Patriot League Tournament kicks off on Tuesday, March 1st with a pair of games in Maryland. At 7:00 PM, Navy (18-13, 9-9) hosts Lafayette (6-23, 3-15) in Annapolis, MD. Thirty minutes later, Loyola (9-20, 8-10) hosts Holy Cross (10-19, 5-13). These games represent the first round as the bottom four seeds of the Patriot…
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…
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…
In this article, we come back from a month hiatus and introduce a normalized rankings model for ranking every team in the NBA. By normalized ranking, we set all rankings to a score between zero and one, where one is a perfect ranking and zero is the worst possible ranking. To build the model we consider…
Over the course of the previous 15 days, there have been some serious upsets within the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball landscape. On January 12th, #11 West Virginia ran #1 Kansas out of the arena with a 74-63 win. On the same day, #3 Maryland dropped a close 70-67 game to Michigan. One day later,…
As of the morning of December 31st, 2016, there have been a total of 2,394 games played by the 351 NCAA division I teams. This means that we are approximately 45% of the 2015-16 season completed. On December 29th, conference play started to take off across the 36 conferences as the American, ACC, Big East, Big…
Over our two week hiatus from Squared2020.com, there were 52 NBA games played, bringing us to a third of the season completed. During this time, we finally saw the Golden State Warriors drop their first game of the season, managing to go 24 consecutive games before their first loss in Milwaukee on December 12th. We…
As the final week of the regular season played out in the NCAA Division I FBS, we witnessed Michigan State power to a 16-13 win over Iowa to win the Big Ten as Clemson managed to weather a comeback attempt from North Carolina for a 45-37 win en route to winning the ACC. In our…
With the penultimate week of the college football season just completed, we witnessed Stanford solidify their ranking with a 38-36 victory over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in Palo Alto and Ohio State deliver a drubbing on Michigan to the tune of 42-13. Not to be outdone, Oklahoma demolished intrastate rival Oklahoma State 58-23. Most importantly,…
This past week, 50 NBA games were played as five teams posted perfect records: Oklahoma City (4-0), Golden State (4-0), San Antonio (4-0), Toronto (3-0), and Indiana (2-0). The wins accelerated Toronto to atop the Atlantic Division, while Golden State, San Antonio, and Oklahoma City extended their leads in their respective Western Conference divisions. On…