{"id":380,"date":"2012-11-16T01:47:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T07:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/the-day-after-11-15-12\/"},"modified":"2012-11-16T01:47:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T07:47:19","slug":"the-day-after-11-15-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/the-day-after-11-15-12\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day After: 11.15.12"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most appealing game (according to FanMatchTM<\/sup>):<\/strong> Purdue vs. Villanova<\/a>. Eight point deficits with 1:29 remaining are rarely turned into wins, but the Wildcats turned a 70-62 game into a 75-75 tie to force overtime. Of course, it helps to have a four-point possession, and after a controversial, if technically correct, Flagrant 1 call on D.J. Byrd with 48 seconds left, that’s what Villanova got. That possession alone was worth a 30% bump to the Wildcats’ chances. ‘Nova went 10-of-10 from the line in the closing stretch of regulation, then closed out the OT for an 89-81 [87 poss] win.<\/p>\n

Major upsets (<15% win probability):<\/strong> Gardner Webb (12%) went to Allstate Arena and crushed DePaul, 71-59<\/a> [65]. The Runnin’ Bulldogs led wire-to-wire and by as much as 18 in the second half, inducing a full seven minutes of garbage time to end the game. <\/p>\n

Crazy comebacks (<3% win probability):<\/strong> Villanova (1.0%) over Purdue<\/a>. Villanova was technically at its most dead when they were down seven with 1:02 to go. <\/p>\n

Unbeatens remaining:<\/strong> 121 (19 fewer than yesterday). It was a tough day for the unbeatens, but UMass went to 2-0 after Terrell Vinson’s tip-in in traffic gave the Minutemen its second-consecutive last-possession win, 77-75<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Winless teams remaining:<\/strong> 66 (8 fewer than yesterday). Put Drexel in the hard-luck winless club. They’re 0-2 with two overtime losses, including last night’s surprisingly high-scoring 86-84<\/a> [80] loss to Illinois State. <\/p>\n

Other notable events:<\/strong> Isaiah Canaan welcomed himself back to our collective conscience by scoring 26 points in 26 minutes as Murray State routed Auburn, 79-59<\/a> [71]. He used 38% of the Racers’ possessions when he was on the floor. I’m guessing a figure like that won’t be all that unusual for Canaan this season.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s top game:<\/strong> Saint Joseph’s and Notre Dame tangle in the nightcap of the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic at roughly 9:30 ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most appealing game (according to FanMatchTM): Purdue vs. Villanova. Eight point deficits with 1:29 remaining are rarely turned into wins, but the Wildcats turned a 70-62 game into a 75-75 tie to force overtime. Of course, it helps to have a four-point possession, and after a controversial, if technically correct, Flagrant 1 call on D.J. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}