This morning, hoops nation is faced with that fact that Duke is the undisputed best team in the nation. It may not be true in a couple of months, but you’d be foolish to argue against it now. Friday FG 3pt FT Reb Min M-A M-A M-A O-T A F S TO BLK Pts Simon […]

FG 3pt FT Reb Min M-A M-A M-A O-T A F S TO BLK Pts Dee Brown 39 12-22 7-13 3-3 0-1 3 2 2 3 0 34 Result: Win. Illinois 60, Michigan St. 50.

When I developed the efficiency page, the idea was that it would replace the power ratings. Last season, I didn’t really notice much difference in the accuracy of the efficiency versus the power ratings, but I wasn’t using the adjusted pythagorean scheme on the efficiency data, either. If you’ve been checking both pages over the […]

FG 3pt FT Reb Min M-A M-A M-A O-T A F S TO BLK Pts Steve Novak 37 12-20 6-13 11-11 5-16 2 1 2 4 0 41 Result: Win. Marquette 94, Connecticut 79.     In early voting for Most Valuable Marcus Williams, Arizona’s freshman forward has the early lead over UConn’s junior point […]

I love the massive laboratory that college hoops provides. A couple of experiments to follow through the conference season are Iowa and Washington State. Both have a tremendous defense to go with an uninspiring offense. Based on the embarrassingly small data set of two seasons, both teams are overachieving defensively.  No team in ‘04 or […]

I know I can’t be the only one that’s noticed that the discussion regarding player of the year has ignored defense or any other aspect besides scoring. It’s like the award has been renamed scorer of the year. And even if it was, Randy Foye deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as JJ […]

I’m working on getting some pages up with the Dean Oliver-style individual stats. In the meantime, enjoy these recent Lines o’ the Night, won’t you? Last Friday FG 3pt FT Reb Min M-A M-A M-A O-T A F S TO BLK Pts Rodney Stuckey 34 9-15 1-2 5-6 3-3 7 2 7 0 1 24 […]

My Christmas gift to you: A link on the stats page to a csv file containing the efficiency and tempo data for every team. Load it into Excel and go to town. It’s not Malibu Barbie, but maybe you can find a use for it. I’ll be back sometime next week. Line o’ the Night […]

Dear Ken, Love your blog.  But, why is Gonzaga overrated?  They’re doing quite well against a top-10 schedule while playing without key contributors.  They’ve beaten good teams in MSU and Maryland.  Their losses were entirely respectable. They lost to UConn by 1 after playing three overtimes the night before, and they lost to Washington by […]

FG 3pt FT Reb Min M-A M-A M-A O-T A F S TO BLK Pts Rodney Carney 30 14-25 5-10 4-4 6-10 2 0 4 2 0 37 Result: Win. Memphis 76, Louisiana Tech 58. It’s occurred to me that I’ve been a little too focused on the overrated so far this season (Houston, hello!). […]