Yearly Archives: 2017
Big South (conference rank: 28th) Feb. 28, Mar. 2, 3, 5 First round at higher seed, Quarters/semis at Winthrop, Championship at higher seed. kPOY: Ahmad Thomas, UNC Asheville. Regular season champ: UNC Asheville (preseason #205 / 2nd Big South, current #99) and Winthrop (preseason #128 / 1st Big South, current #113) Overachiever: UNC Asheville (preseason #205, current #99) Underachiever: Longwood […]
Atlantic Sun (conference rank: 25th) Feb. 27, Mar. 2, 5 All games at higher seed kPOY: Brandon Goodwin, Florida Gulf Coast Regular season champ: Florida Gulf Coast (preseason #103 / 1st A-Sun, current #119) Overachiever: Lipscomb (preseason #231, current #162) Underachiever: Stetson (preseason #228, current #315) The Atlantic Sun will tip off tournament action tonight at […]
Single-elimination play will begin tonight and continue for fourteen consecutive days. It continues after that, of course, with the NCAA tournament and the NIT and the CBI and the CIT (is the Vegas 16 happening again?) and those are all great. But they’re not as much fun as the next two weeks. Conference tournaments are […]
I compiled some stats on dunks this season. Let’s look at them. Most dunks, individual: 5. Chimezie Metu, USC (60). Metu is the only player on this list who takes more than 20% of his team’s shots so he’s more than a one-dimensional dunker. For a guy that gets to the rim on the regular, […]
Gonzaga plays at Saint Mary’s tomorrow in what is easily its toughest test on the WCC schedule. The Zags are chasing quasi-history, attempting blow away recent bests for conference scoring margin. Here’s how their current run stacks up to the best seasons since 1999. Gonzaga 17 WCC 13-0 27.3 1 Duke 99 ACC 16-0 24.3 2 […]
Fun stats have their place. They can perk you up when the world’s got you down. I’m not above wheeling and dealing some fun factoids from time to time. For instance, I bet you didn’t know that the team that has gone the longest without playing an overtime is North Florida. The Ospreys have played […]
There were 1,421 games between Division-I teams in January. Here are the wildest things that happened during the month: Biggest Upsets 3. January 18: #74 Oklahoma 89, #2 West Virginia 87 (OT) (6.8%) The Mountaineers have lost three Big 12 games, two in overtime and the other by four points. Losing to the Sooners at home, though, […]
Discussion of sports can often fall into an irrational abyss. But even the most levelheaded people lose their ability for rational conversation when it comes to officiating. In a rational world we’d hold the officials to the same standard as the players. Playing basketball at the highest level requires among other things quick decision-making. We recognize that not […]
Hey, a bunch of us got together at the NCAA office last Friday to discuss how to incorporate modern rating systems into the basketball committee’s selection process. That the meeting happened at all is a big step. The NCAA is a large organization with diverse membership and the fact that it is even this far down […]
The 1984 Harvard Crimson improbably have held the season free-throw percentage record for three decades, even in the face of college basketball players collectively shooting better than ever. As we continue to see the national average in free-throw shooting hover around 70%, it seems like there should be an ever increasing number of candidates threatening […]