You know I have the MVC’s back on a lot of things. For instance, this idea that is gaining momentum that the MVC is fraudulent because all of their quality wins have come in-conference. Hey, look at bubble teams from power conferences. You’re not going to find too many that have big out-of-conference wins. So […]

Giving my own personal “Full Circle” coverage here… – I haven’t heard anybody say it yet, so I will: Right now, UNC is the best team in the ACC. Even if you believe last night’s game was an abberation and Duke is still the best bet to go the farthest in the dance – which […]

– With UAB’s win over Memphis, Ohio State or Illinois has a realistic shot at a one-seed, and may well control their destiny. Illinois is more of a darkhorse in this regard, but they have six wins over the RPI top 25 with three of them away from home. If either wins out, they’ll have […]

It seems like the OK St game is killing [Texas]. The win one for Eddie S. thing bit them, but the treatment seems harsh. Is this team a legitimate No.1 seed with real Nat’l. Championship aspirations or this year really just a two team race? CK This has been the week to anoint UConn as […]

I’m working on something for espn.com, so this will have to suffice. FG 3pt FT Reb Min M-A M-A M-A O-T A F S TO BLK Pts Walker Russell 38 8-16 5-7 0-0 2-11 11 1 0 2 0 21 Result: Win. Jacksonville St. 82, Eastern Kentucky 59.

So Oklahoma pulled off an astounding fourth straight one-point victory last night. This hasn’t been done before in the limited data I have. Three straight one-point wins has only been done once since the ‘99 season – two years ago by High Point. If you have followed this streak, you have seen some examples of […]

Unfortunately, defensive stats are not to the point where I can consistently honor defensive specialists in a Line o’ the Night. But Saturday was a day for defenders to shine in obvious ways. Temple’s Dustin Salisbery shut down J.J. Redick to the tune of 11 points on 3-for-10 shooting. Hey, give John Chaney credit. His […]

Back on January 5th, I jotted down some of the more unusual developments in our little Pythagorean baby. Let’s go back and look at how some of the surprising conference frontrunners have fared now that the regular season is drawing to a close. All preseason predictions cited come from Blue Ribbon. A-10: Xavier. Nice collapse […]

Ken, I just reviewed Joe Lunardi’s 2/20/06 bracket projection on ESPN.com.  In general those projections usually look like a fair comparison to how the committee would seed the teams at that particular point in time.  I think that’s again the case with his 2/20/06 bracket.  However, I have to laugh when I see that Duke […]

My savant skills tell me Notre Dame will be the best team left out of March Madness. In fact, there will probably be 5 to 10 at-large teams that are worse than the Irish. They have outscored conference opponents by 33 points, suggesting an 8-5 record would be more appropriate than the 4-9 one they […]