First off, I kind of screwed up my RPI analysis of conferences yesterday. Let’s just say that the old RPI values were off, and basically conference rank wasn’t affected much by BracketBusters. Serves me right for trying to talk about RPI. Second, I’m getting tired of hearing how certain teams get everyone’s “best shot”. As […]

A breakdown of conferences that played 5 or more games in the BracketBusters: RPI Pvs Now CAA 6-2 11 10 WAC 6-3 9 9 Big West 5-3 28 24 MVC 5-5 5 6 OVC 5-6 18 20 Horizon 4-5 14 15 MAC 5-7 15 16 MAAC 4-6 10 13 George Mason and Missouri State were […]

FG 3pt FT Reb Min M-A M-A M-A O-T A F S TO BLK Pts Leon Powe 38 10-14 0-0 10-14 6-10 2 2 0 3 0 30 Result: Win. California 75, Arizona 66.       Dan Grunfeld had a better shooting night (9-11 FGs, 11-11 FTs, 31 pts) in Stanford’s win over Arizona […]

Ken- Love your website.  I visit it regularly, even though I’m on the women’s side of college basketball. That said, I saw an amazing box score last night.  Florida’s women’s team scored 63 points, won by 15… yet only had 3 assists. I thought that’d make an interesting scavenger hunt for your readers… what is […]

FG 3pt FT Reb Min M-A M-A M-A O-T A F S TO BLK Pts DeWitt Maxwell 36 10-13 0-0 7-9 8-12 3 3 1 3 6 27 Result: Win. Fairfield 109, St. Peter’s 108. There were only about 80 possessions in this contest, so basically it had less defense than a high school all-star […]

I should have mentioned it yesterday, but there’s an interesting chapter in Basketball on Paper where Dean Oliver gets into the subject of how bad officiating can affect games. Basically, the idea is that a random assortment of missed calls will tend to help the underdog over the course of a season. It gets to […]

So this whole thing about Duke getting all the calls has been beat to death repeatedly over the past week. But I’m still going to chime in with a few tidbits on how the Devils stack up statistically in the fouling department. Let’s start by looking at where Duke ranks nationally in a couple of […]

I am still working on my little Duke exposé, or whatever you want to call it. I’ll try to post it Monday. Line o’ the Night FG 3pt FT Reb Min M-A M-A M-A O-T A F S TO BLK Pts Kevin Pittsnogle 26 0-12 0-6 0-0 1-2 0 5 2 4 1 0 Result: […]

Maybe I’ll make this a regular Thursday feature. It’s an effective way to maintain my laziness and continue to churn out content. First up, we have someone who can navigate the NCAA web site better than me: Ken, It’s been three years since the last 50-point game. Here are all the D-I 50-point games from […]

Not much for today, since I have a column going up on espn.com later. A cool thing I came across when doing research for it was a database of boxscores for every game West Virginia has ever played. It’s an interesting page if you ever want to see the evolution of the box score. I […]