These previews are intended to be in the style of Basketball Prospectus’ ongoing D-I previews. See part 1 of their Pac-10 team previews here for an example. We’ll save the best for first, just because I was the most excited to preview the Bisons. You’ll have to forgive me. I’ll do the rest of the […]
Category: D-II / Harding Basketball
GSC Preseason Release…Released
It never really feels like basketball season’s ready to start until I see the GSC Preseason Release. This year, the coaches have tabbed Montevallo as the GSC East and Conference champion, with Christian Brothers as the GSC West favorite. That’s a pretty safe bet. Here are the predicted GSC West standings (total votes and first […]
Basketball: State of the Blog
Even though I’m still on Blogger for now, I thought I’d lay out my schedule for GSC basketball this year. The regular season begins on November 15th, and by then I plan to have all eight GSC West teams previewed. Here’s a tentative schedule: Mon 10/22: Harding Wed 10/24: Arkansas Tech Fri 10/26: Arkansas-Monticello Mon […]
06-07: The Year in SUPER
A while back, I introduced a stat that I decided to call SUPER, which is short for Schedule-Adjusted Usage-Rate-Weighted Player Efficiency Rating (PER). The PER component was created by John Hollinger of ESPN.com, and I made two other relatively simple adjustments for schedule strength (something that’s not as important in the NBA, where Hollinger does […]