If you can only watch one game on Saturday, ignore the overhyped Duke-Carolina rematch. Instead check out the Atlantic Sun Championship at 4 Eastern on ESPN2. It’s Troy State vs. Central Florida, the two best teams in a conference where the 3rd best team, Belmont, has wins over probable at-large teams Missouri and Air Force. […]

If you were rooting for any team with a “Tech” in its name, it was a good night. Georgia Tech 76, Duke 68. The Jackets end the longest home winning streak in the nation and boost their NCAA seeding. Sorry, but Duke is still a frontrunner for a #1 seed. The current longest home streak […]

It’s not often or maybe ever that a team loses 8 of it’s first 10 conference games and then ends up playing for an at-large bid in the regular season finale. But that’s exactly what has happened to Virginia this year. Tonight, for the 4th time in their last 5 games, they won on a […]

One of the oft-asked and often irrelevant questions about the NCAA field is regarding the number one seeds. Duke, Stanford, and Saint Joe’s are all assumed to be guaranteed this honor, but who will get that final top seed? It won’t be Gonzaga. They have no wins against the RPI top 25. The last thing […]

Two weeks until the speculation can end. Conference tournaments will decide the fate of most teams that still have questions about their at-large status. (One question mark means you’re in, but shaky. Two question marks means you’re out, but can get in with a strong finish.) ACC (6 teams in) – Duke, North Carolina St., […]

Here’s what I have come up for offensive rebounding percentages (OR%) for each type of missed shot. This is based on all games involving at least one D-1 team played between January 1 and February 21. 3 point shot: 21.0% (21% of missed 3 pointers are rebounded by the offense) 2 point shot: 41.1% Free […]

Kent State lost at Buffalo 82-68 tonight, a team that had no previous top 100 wins. There’s no way to give Kent any benefit of the doubt here, they got waxed from start to finish by a bad ballclub. This effectively ends the Golden Flashes at-large chances, barring possibly a run to the MAC championship […]

Big games tonight include Alabama @ Auburn, Oklahoma State @ Missouri, and Clemson @ Maryland. Alabama, Missouri, and Maryland all need wins in these games. Maryland’s FG percentage in their last five games: 36, 40, 39, 32, 37. The good news for the Terps is that Clemson has not held anyone remotely close to those […]

BYU shoots 82% (14-17) in the 2nd half to pull away from Air Force. Meanwhile, UTEP hangs on to beat Hawaii. Like Air Force, UTEP is trying to go from worst to first in its conference in an unlikely attempt to make the tournament. Last year, the Miners were 6-24 overall with an RPI rank […]

Air Force at BYU is getting ready to tip off. BYU has won all but one of its last 61 games at the Marriott Center. In their previous meeting, Air Force shot over 70% and ripped BYU from start to finish. This game is much more important to BYU, although Air Force is in no […]