Musical Interlude
03.10.06
I don’t have much substance to offer amid the tourney mayhem. I’ll get something up Sunday with comments about the last few days in addition to some bracket predictions. A couple of early ones: the Valley will get five bids and Gonzaga will slip to a 3 seed.
For those of you wanting a tourney prediction method or something along those lines, check out what the folks at TeamRankings are doing with BracketBrains. A portion of the proceeds go to a good cause - me!
As a belated gift to SEC fans, Dave Gallagher submitted these log5-based chances on the SEC Tournament.
Quarters Semis Final Champ E2 Florida 100.00% 61.71% 36.06% 22.93% W1 LSU 100.00% 71.00% 35.62% 21.63% E1 Tennessee 100.00% 67.15% 40.32% 18.74% E3 Kentucky 85.96% 53.58% 27.53% 11.77% W3 Arkansas 81.78% 35.62% 18.61% 10.71% W2 Alabama 100.00% 43.44% 17.09% 5.35% E5 South Carolina 68.38% 25.90% 12.47% 4.34% E4 Vanderbilt 72.43% 24.51% 8.40% 3.74% W4 Mississippi St. 31.62% 6.95% 2.12% 0.43% W5 Auburn 27.57% 4.49% 0.76% 0.18% E6 Georgia 18.22% 2.67% 0.55% 0.13% W6 Mississippi 14.04% 2.99% 0.46% 0.05%
A Log5 Cabin
03.08.06
Thanks to Richard Lipp and Ed Malczewski for contributing a log5 version of tournament odds for the Big 12 and Big Ten, respectively. Head on over to the Phog Blog for the Big 12 numbers. The Big Ten is below.
Seed Quarters Semis Finals Champ 1 Ohio St. 100.00% 85.42% 60.64% 34.76% 3 Illinois 100.00% 70.74% 44.41% 26.03% 2 Iowa 100.00% 66.76% 31.74% 16.24% 4 Wisconsin 100.00% 55.90% 20.76% 7.95% 6 Michigan St. 84.23% 27.92% 12.84% 5.43% 5 Indiana 100.00% 44.10% 14.23% 4.70% 7 Michigan 63.24% 23.72% 8.46% 3.33% 10 Minnesota 36.76% 9.51% 2.35% 0.66% 9 Northwestern 58.43% 9.52% 3.09% 0.66% 8 Penn St. 41.57% 5.06% 1.29% 0.21% 11 Purdue 15.77% 1.34% 0.19% 0.02%
Line o’ the Night
FG 3pt FT Reb
Min M-A M-A M-A O-T A F S TO BLK Pts
Morris Almond 38 12-17 3-4 1-2 2-7 0 1 5 2 0 28
Result: Loss. SMU 61, Rice 59.
I’d pay to see a one-on-one game between Morris Almond and Morris Chestnut.
The Mo Valley is Mo’ Boring
03.06.06
You know I have the MVC’s back on a lot of things. For instance, this idea that is gaining momentum that the MVC is fraudulent because all of their quality wins have come in-conference. Hey, look at bubble teams from power conferences. You’re not going to find too many that have big out-of-conference wins. So don’t lay a double standard on the MVC. However…
Check out the halftime scores of the nine games of the MVC Tourney: 24-23, 24-22, 20-20, 23-19, 23-21, 25-16, 30-24, 19-10, 18-17. Consider yourself warned to tune into games involving Valley teams sometime in the second half.
On an unrelated note, the most convenient way to keep up with conference tournament action is by stopping by The Bracket Board, and utilizing the One Stop Shop.
Friday
FG 3pt FT Reb
Min M-A M-A M-A O-T A F S TO BLK Pts
Ricky Woods 39 12-22 0-1 4-7 3-16 3 3 10 2 3 28
Result: Loss. Southeastern Louisiana 89, Lamar 79.
Saturday
FG 3pt FT Reb
Min M-A M-A M-A O-T A F S TO BLK Pts
Paul Millsap 38 8-16 0-0 4-9 12-23 0 3 3 5 5 20
Result: Win. Louisiana Tech 51, Hawaii 48.
Talk about having the rebounding gods on your side. The two teams (minus Millsap) combined to go 29 for 96 (30.2%) from the field, and 2 for 35 (5.7%) from 3. There were plenty of missed shots, and naturally Millsap grabbed a lot of the rebounds to clinch his third consecutive national rebounding title. This was the worst 3-point shooting brickfest in the land this season (minimum 25 attempts).
Sunday
FG 3pt FT Reb
Min M-A M-A M-A O-T A F S TO BLK Pts
Je'Kel Foster 34 2-15 1-9 3-3 2-8 5 1 5 2 0 8
Result: Win. Ohio State 76, Purdue 57.
OK, who was the goofball that wore the Je’Kel Foster jersey yesterday?