The ACC is at the end of its golden age this year. This is the last year that all members will play each other twice. Fans can savor this last year of double round-robin play because 4 teams have a claim to be among the top 10 in America. Duke, UNC, Georgia Tech, and Wake […]

I don’t know what Mizzou fans expected from Conley, but I know I was expecting more than this in his first 6 games… Points by game: 19, 0, 2, 1, 5, 0 Minutes by game: 21, 23, 21, 19, 14, 9 Looks like Conley is heading further down Quin Snyder’s bench with each performance.

The table below summarizes the shot distribution of Temple’s oppenents this year – both in the games against Temple, and over the whole season. (3PA = 3-point attempts, FGA = field goal attempts, %3PA = 3PA/FA) vs. Temple Season Opponent 3PA FGA %3PA 3PA FGA %3PA Villanova 18 43 41.9 219 602 36.4 Illinois 22 […]

Ben Howland may be a great coach, but in the case of taking the UCLA job this year, timing was everything. It really didn’t matter whether UCLA improved this year, only that they didn’t take a step back. Just standing still, UCLA is able to watch the rest of PAC 10 slide down a notch […]

I didn’t get to see any games today, but checking over scores, my curiosity was drawn to the Temple-Indiana game. Temple won 59-50. By the way, this makes IU 19-18 since Mike Davis lost his cool in the Kentucky game last year. But I digress – the key number from this game was that IU […]

On January 2, 2003, the lowest RPI-rated team to eventually get an at-large bid was Colorado at #103. Other low-rated teams included Cal at 98 and Syracuse at 63. All other at-large teams were in the top 60. Highly ranked teams that failed to make it to the dance included UNC at #12, UNLV at […]

After a few requests, I have added conference SOS to the conference RPI page. This is calculated by taking an average of each conference member’s non-conference SOS. There will be no updates of the ratings until January 1st, at which point daily updates will resume.

This is the final post in a three part series. (The first two parts are here: part 1 and part 2). This one deals with how a lack of including home court advantage affects the formula. For the most part the effects are negligible. For one, most of a team’s schedule is made up of […]

Nebraska is not even on the radar of the folks in Lincoln, where even a lowly 9-3 football team still captivates the locals attention through December. The hoops team must play second fiddle to Creighton for the state’s basketball interests. Creighton is also the only team Nebraska has lost to so far this year. Nebraska […]

All the talk has been about parity this year. But it’s really just a way for folks to excuse the fact that they didn’t realize how good Georgia Tech, Stanford, St. Joseph’s, Vanderbilt, North Carolina, etc. would be. This year is no different than any other year. In fact, if anything there is less parity. […]