The Columbia at Hofstra game tonight was cancelled due to the Columbia bus being stuck in what is termed "heavy traffic" in the AP story. This wasn’t your run-of-the-mill Columbia-Hofstra game either. It was 4-0 Hofstra against 3-1 Columbia. Hofstra is two wins away from becoming bowl eliglible, and a representative from the Las Vegas […]

Dear Diary, Why is ESPN so obsessed with former coaches as studio hosts? Manning the ESPN studios for this game are Chris Fowler, Digger Phelps, and Mike Jarvis. They’ve also had Steve Lavin and Rick Majerus in the studio this season. It’s totally the opposite approach they have for college football where Trev Alberts, Mark […]

Ohio University opened its season last night by hosting San Francisco, becoming the last team to play a real game. Ohio usually is one of the last teams to tip-off their season. This is because they are on a wacky quarter system where exams fall on the week before Thanksgiving. For you youngsters out there, […]

There are a couple of questions I have after the long weekend. Question #1) When did Arizona morph into Temple? I was expecting the Arizona/Wake Forest game to be played in the 90s, but instead it was an ugly 63-60 win for the Deacs. Arizona has proven that they are a lot more responsible on […]

I’m not going to do a real post today. After Thanksgiving break, I will take my little free throw project in a different direction and show exactly how success or failure in all sorts of other statistical categories produces winning or losing basketball. There’s bound to be a few mildly interesting nuggets in there. If […]

So as a follow up to my unsubstantiated claim last Friday that a team’s volume of free throw attempts is more important than their free throw percentage, I decided to run some tests on last season’s data. I took the top 30 and bottom 30 teams in various categories and computed their total winning percentage. […]

For those who got tired of hearing about how good the ACC was last season, early indications are that you’ll get more of the same this year. With Virginia’s 78-60 rout of Arizona on Sunday, you had a team that isn’t expected to finish in the top five of the ACC beat a team that […]

NC State, who led the nation in free throw shooting at around 80% last season, has started out this year 20 for 34 (59%) from the line in two games. If State kept up this pace they would be vying for national basement honors by March. But even if that did happen, it shouldn’t be […]

Because my readership currently is at the same levels as last February and March, I feel compelled to post more often, and not just wait until something interesting pops into my head. I’m going to remove some of the filtering that occurs between my head and cyberspace. Since people are taking the time to stop […]

Wake Forest got out of the gates about as well as they could have, beating an experienced George Washington team soundly tonight, 97-76. More importantly, two lingering questions – defense and Danelius – recieved strong responses. Wake’s defense was solid: GW committed 25 turnovers, shot 40% from the field, and was held to less than […]