The five most interesting games from the weekend: 5) Old Dominion 82, William & Mary 66. The game itself wasn’t particularly noteworthy. However, in the midst of Bracket Buster Saturday, one of the nation’s hottest mid-majors, ODU, was stuck playing a conference game against a team around 300 in the RPI. 4) Arizona 91, Oregon […]

It’s been hard to get motivated to update the stats page this morning. First, there is the matter of Ike Diogu hitting his 200th free throw of the season in Arizona State’s 75-73 win over Oregon State last night. Diogu squandered an opportunity to pad his total by missing seven of his 15 attempts. Ike […]

You’re starting to hear it more and more. Oh, how those power conferences have really fallen. Finally, the little guy will get his revenge. The Chinese recently celebrated the Year of the Rooster and college hoops observers are starting to hail the Year of the Catamounts, Salukis, and Monarchs. These statements have been driven in […]

When you don’t have anything to say, let the readers say it for you… Ken, Just saw your column commenting on Seth Davis saying Illinois "needed" a loss. Someone should ask Seth how teams with 1 loss have won since undefeated IU. Based on the teams I read about in the Final Four program in […]

Begrudgingly, I submit my look at the at-large picture. In my patented piecemeal approach, I am adding bubble teams this week. This is probably more for my benefit than yours, so if you think I’ve missed something – maybe I have! Drop me a line to let me know. I’ve had to ax three teams […]

On Saturday, there were two comebacks that will forever be remembered by fans of the teams involved in the games. UNLV’s was the most impressive – an 11-1 run over the last 22 seconds against San Diego State to force overtime. But the most significant was Pacific’s 11-2 run in the final 27 ticks to […]

This blog has been one-dimensional this season: it can shoot the three, it can dish the rock, but it plays no defense. Today, I look at a defensive statistic that gets little press – the ability to prevent assists. See the stats page for the defensive assist percentage of all 330 teams. Defensive assist percentage […]

What you may have missed last night: 1) Miami Ohio and Kent State both won tight MAC road games, staying on a collision course for a March 2 showdown between the conference’s two most deserving at-large teams. Miami’s win was tainted by buzzer-beating controversy. The headline on the above Miami link at the time of […]

I posted 32 tournament locks on Monday, and by Tuesday night, I no longer had confidence in one of them. Injury-riddled Texas is reeling after getting routed in Boulder, despite a 27 and 21 performance from Brad Buckman. The character of the team has changed since the nearly simultaneous loss of starters PJ Tucker and […]

Ken, Utah has won their last 14 games by DD’s (10+). Is this some kind of record? What is the record for consecutive games winning by DD’s? It’s gotta be approaching. If they get UNLV by 10 tonight, they should get to at least 16 with CSU at home next. Ryan I have to confess, […]