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…
After a chaotic 143 game Saturday, we take a look at the changes since our last rankings a mere three days ago. With some bubble teams making noise: Marquette (16-10, 5-8 Big East) defeated Coaches/AP-ranked Providence (19-7, 7-6 Big East), only to lose to fellow-bubble team Creighton (17-9, 8-5 Big East). Kansas (21-4, 9-3…
As February marches on, we take a look (at an increasing rate) at the current state of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball tournament based on our rankings model. Our rankings model takes into account: wins, win disparity, location of game, length of rest between games, distance traveled, and a couple other factors. The…
In the past couple weeks, once again high ranked teams fell apart on the court, unable to bolster their resumes for top spots in the upcoming NCAA Championship Tournament: #4 Kansas fell to #14 Iowa State on January 24th. #5 Texas A&M lost to unranked Arkansas on January 26th. #3 Iowa lost to #8 Maryland…
(Warning: Math Heavy) The NFL has an adage: “Any given Sunday.” This phrase typically means that during any week, for any given match-up between two teams, either team has a relatively high probability of winning the game. This translates into parity within the league. Typically we should see teams win between 6 and 10 games…
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,…
Last night, Oklahoma (12-1) and Kansas (13-1) put together probably the best NCAA college game of the season in a thrilling 109-106 triple overtime that favored the Jayhawks at home. Billed as a match-up between #1 teams, the game brought everything to the table as far as high stakes competition, a challenge for the lead…
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