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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...
Bracket reaction (prospect matchups):
So the brackets just got released, and I see quite a few good match-ups to watch from a prospect standpoint... Midwest Region: Round of 32: (good chance) A potential match-up of James Anderson versus Evan Turner. How nice would this be to watch? Sweet 16: (low chance) Potential match-up of...
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...
MWC Hoops
This year's conference play has been outstanding... New Mexico, who was actually 1st in conference standings coming into conference play is now 1-2... losing to San Diego State, UNLV and just recently beating Utah last night. BYU is playing great basketball with their only loss on the entire...
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...
2009 NCAA Tournament Day 1 Open Thread
Alright guys, it's finally here, the Christmas day of the college hoops world. It's Madness time! No more bitching about seedings and pairings, no more thinking about matchups and injuries and team colors and stupid mascots based on civilizations that lost ancient wars. What do your guy's...
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...
James Harden is talented but . . .
I know James Harden is an excellent player, but what Herb Sendek (who I have some respect for) did with him at the end of Pac-10 final was the most atrocious piece of coaching I've seen this weekend (and there has been a lot of bad coaching this weekend). I know James Harden is an excellent player,...
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