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NCAA Tournament Selection Show Open Thread
It's that time. Selection Sunday. Michigan has sweeps over two of the Big Ten Tournament semifinalists. Michigan's only bad loss on the season was at Indiana. Michigan's RPI is 51 and their Strength of Schedule is 16th. They closed hot and lost to the No. 1 overall seed (projected No. 1 overall...
How Many Teams Deserve to Play in March?
Earlier this week, KUGrad laid out his persuasive argument against the expansion of the NCAA Tournament. Because I started looking up records last week, I'm going to share my side today. Expansion supporters often claim it will do two great things for college basketball. First, it will reward...
Problem with the Tournament?
I stumbled onto this article today, entitled "How to save college basketball" I had no idea it needed saving, and I wondered why the disconnect. So I read... http://www.andthevalleyshook.com/2009/3/25/809788/how-to-save-college-basket ...and my immediate reaction is that it must depend on...
Wikiwar
The good stuff has already been removed from the current page, but there was some hilarious stuff put up on the Wikipedia page for Stephen F. Austin earlier tonight. The first edit was done by an apparent SFA fan and read as follows: In the 2009 NCAA Tournament, Stephen F Austin defeated the...
The Field vs. RPI Top 75
Here it is boys and girls (hopefully a few ladies read this site). Wins for every team in the field vs the RPI top 75. I don't know whether the information will be any help when it comes to filling out a bracket, but it can't hurt. A few notes before we get to the graphs. This is looking at...
This Year, I Want It All.
Even after a much too close win over West Virginia, I've never been so confident in the Cards' ability to beat anyone on any given day. The games we didn't win (with the exception of UConn) were all remarkably unlikely considering the way we've played when at our best. Even against UConn we were...
Meet the 2009 NCAA Tournament Selection Committee
Have you been wondering who gets to determine the fate of the Noles and the rest of the NCAA bracket? Here they are: 2009 Selection Committee By my count, there are four individuals on the committee who have some type of basketball experience, coaching or playing: Thomas O'Connor, Christopher...
FSU Tournament Tracker 2/22 Projection: IN
02/22- 02/28 What a week! Last Monday I wrote: As for this week, we need to win one game. That's it. Just one. KenPom gives us a 50% chance to beat Miami at home and a 41% chance to beat Virginia Tech. We have about a 20% chance to win both, a 30% chance to lose both, and a 50% chance to...
Baseball Outside Looking In With Projected Field
Aaron Fitt of Baseball America has his projected NCAA field of 64 teams and we are on the outside looking in: At 25-23 overall and 8-10 in conference, UCLA just needs wins, starting with a must-win series this weekend against Washington State and continuing with trips to Cal State Fullerton for...
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