Like a bear emerging from hibernation to eat, I will take the chance today to return from my blogging hiatus, if only briefly, to celebrate one of my favorite teams reaching the pinnacle of their sport. That’s right – I was one of the few non-Duke-alumni not rooting for the underdogs in last night’s NCAA […]
Category: D-I Basketball
NCAA Tourney Notes: Sweet Sixteen
A few things to chew on as the NCAA Tournament kicks back into gear tonight: Eight of the top ten and 13 of the top 16 teams in Ken Pomeroy’s final regular season rankings are still alive in the NCAA Tournament, which this year has been mostly devoid of upsets. All of the 1-3 seeds […]
Back from vacation, ready for a vacation from vacation
I’ve had a fun week and a half, but I’m ready to be at home for a while now. Tonight will be the first night since 3/12 that I’ve spent back-to-back nights at home and the first night in almost a week that I’ve spent back-to-back nights at the same place. I suppose I really […]
2009 NCAA Tournament Log5 and Picks
I don’t have a lot of commentary right now since I’m on vacation (spring training is pretty cool, you know), but I have made my NCAA Tournament picks and computed the Log5 win probabilities based on KenPom’s rankings. See below. There are actually five brackets there (my ESPN entries), but #1 is the one I […]
Scouting the 2009 NCAA Tournament: Top Teams
This is the fourth installment of a four-part series on scouting the 2009 NCAA Tournament. Check out the intro, Part 1 (small conferences), Part 2 (mid-majors), and Part 3 (power conferences). With just a few days left until Selection Sunday and many conference tournaments either underway or complete, I will attempt in this post to […]
Scouting the 2009 NCAA Tournament: Power Conferences
This is the third installment of a four-part series on scouting the 2009 NCAA Tournament. Check out the intro, Part 1 (small conferences), and Part 2 (mid-majors). Most of college basketball’s best teams play in one of six “power” conferences, also known as the BCS conferences in football: the ACC, SEC, Big East, Big Ten, […]
Scouting the 2009 NCAA Tournament: Mid-Majors
This is the second installment of a four-part series on scouting the 2009 NCAA Tournament. See the intro here and the first installment here. In the first installment in this series, I mentioned that a lot of basketball analysts throw around the term “mid-major” and use it to refer to different sets of teams. For […]
Scouting the 2009 NCAA Tournament: Small Conferences
This is the first installment of a four-part series on scouting the 2009 NCAA Tournament. See the introduction here. Before we begin, let me define what I mean by “small” conferences. Basketball analysts throw around the term “mid-major” all the time without defining it particularly well. Some would consider any team in a non-BCS conference […]
Scouting the 2009 NCAA Tournament
I’m going to devote a few posts over the coming weeks to identifying sleeper picks and the top overall teams for the 2009 NCAA Tournament. No one gets his or her bracket exactly right, but it’s fun to try, and I hope to provide some helpful information to that end. We’re getting to the part […]
Curry makes all the difference in Davidson win at UTC
Stephen Curry needed a few minutes to get into the game, but he eventually took over in Davidson’s Wednesday night road win over UTC. Although the Mocs played a close game at Davidson in December, they had no answer for arguably the nation’s most dominant player, who scored 32 points and handed out 8 impressive […]
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