Updated: 2/13/14 It can be easy to get lost in the modern-day college hoops world with dozens of games being played each night, many of them broadcast on outlets you barely know exist. Ever kick yourself for watching a dud of a game on a four-letter network only to find out the next morning that […]

I’ve changed the schedule pages to allow for one-stop shopping for (almost all of) the team-related info found on the site. There are probably a few things that are broken as a result. Just drop me a and I’ll fix them as soon as I can. I still need to add the position-related stats to […]

SCOUTING REPORT Adjusted efficiency: Raw offensive efficiency is points scored per 100 offensive possessions. The adjusted version adjusts for the quality of opposing defenses, the site of each game, and when each game was played (recent games get more weight). Defensive efficiency is points allowed per 100 defensive possessions, adjusted for the same things. (The […]

I get about 5-10 e-mails today asking about predictions and player stats and such. That won’t start for another 2-3 weeks. I mean, come on, the ratings are a joke right now. There’s not enough data. Plus, behind the scenes I’m trying to make the site less clunky so just wait a bit. Everything will […]

Beginning this season, I am no longer providing RPI data. Over the last few seasons my focus has been on team evaluation and predicting future performance. The RPI is so-so at assisting with the former and less useful at the latter and I basically ignored it in favor of the other information produced here. This […]

Basketball Prospectus is officially up. We should have daily Monday-through-Friday content right through the championship game on April 7th, so be sure to make it a daily stop. (And if you couldn’t figure it out, there will be no further posting here.)

As many of you noticed, I’m going to be writing somewhere else fairly soon. The good folks at Baseball Prospectus are diving into the college hoops game and generally looking to make all other college basketball coverage irrelevant, so how could I pass that up? It’s going to be a good fit for me and […]

In an effort to keep my Ripken-eqsue streak of posting at least once a month intact, I thought I would stop by the old blog for an update. Despite the dust collecting around these parts, there is plenty of stuff going on behind the scenes. John Gasaway and I will be rolling out a season […]

If you read last season’s Big 12 preview, you know that there isn’t much relationship between steals and “non-steal turnovers”, or NST’s. Here’s how that relationship looked on the offensive end for the D-I universe during the 2007 season. At one extreme, Mercer had the ball stolen a lot last season (3rd most in the […]

As part of the next generation of the Pomeroy Ratings, I’ll be removing the effect of opponents free throw shooting. In the grand scheme of things, this is a low-grade improvement and there are bigger fish to fry in improving the system. For most teams, opponents collectively shoot about what they should over the course […]