Cleaning out the inbox this morning… Ken, I’m wondering if you’ve ever calculated these kinds of numbers for Grinnell College. They lead all NCAA hoops squads in scoring and must top all divisions in possessions.  Any numbers on them? Gabe Let’s look at the two most notable college teams playing non-basketball. Grinnell: 102.4 poss/40 min, […]

Wake Forest missed but one free throw in 53 attempts over the past two games against North Carolina and Florida State. Yet that miss cost them a win. Taron Downey clanked one with 4 seconds left in regulation that would have broken a 76-76 tie against FSU. The miss ended an NCAA record streak of […]

Back in the day, when ESPN was still showing Australian Rules Football on a regular basis and college basketball was not available every night, there was an over-the-air channel that was basically what the Full Court package is now. You could see quite a few games from all the big conferences. You know, the Southwest […]

13-0 Boston College tried to maintain its unbeaten record and 11-2 West Virginia was hoping to make people forget that they had just lost to Marshall. Through the miracle of streaming video, I was able to file this report as if I were attending the game, or even merely watching it on TV. Here are […]

Today’s stat is "three point production." It is… (Three pointers made x 3) / Total Points Scored View the season-to-date figures for this stat for every D1 team on the stats page. Three point production is just the percentage of points scored on threes. A team’s offense that relies too much on the three tends […]

(Due to a problem with TypePad, this post, originally written Thursday morning, did not appear until Thursday evening.) Before I talk about the ACC, how about ESPN doing some more WAC games? Last night, UTEP visited the Biggest Little City in the World(tm) and jumped out to an early 24 point lead on Nevada. Nevada […]

Two Big East teams with different margins for error… First, there’s West Virginia. WVU is a team that wins with quality three point shooting and great defense. The dependence on the jumper makes them a quality team prone to intermittent bouts of incompetence. That’s how they can validate a win over George Washington with a […]

There is one individual statistic that is being dominated like no other this season. Free Throws Made Diogu, Arizona State……..136 Mendez, Niagara…………..95 McGowan, Pepperdine……….94 Roberts, Mississippi State…90 Green, Oral Roberts……….88 No one goes to San Francisco Giants games to see Barry Bonds walk. And no one goes to a basketball game to see a player’s […]

What a crystallizing weekend of hoops. It’s pretty obvious that the five best teams in the nation are Illinois, UNC, Wake Forest, Kansas, and Oklahoma State in some order. I can’t believe someone from outside that group will get a #1 seed. Other random thoughts… – Those of us who thought that the Pac 10 […]

Hello, Ken Thanks for your great work. I love the efficiency stats. A stat I would like to see kept somewhere is offensive rebounding percentage (plus defensive rebounding percentage = rebounding efficiency). As I’m sure you know, OR% = OR/missed FGA. DR% = DR/opponents’ missed FGA. Michael I’m going to use Michael’s idea with a […]