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Harding has won its last two games, and summaries will be coming tomorrow. Quick thought: The road win at UAM was a good start, but UAM is also looking down this year. Update 1/7 Now I have some stats. Below are the key factors and player stats from each game. Harding 99, Central Baptist 78 […]

Below are some GSC individual leaderboards for the 2006 non-conference schedule.  To qualify for any of these lists, a player must have seen time in at least seven games, average at least 8 minutes in those games, and have accounted for at least 3% of his team’s total offensive possessions.  Those are arbitrary cutoffs, but I […]

Non-conference play is winding down for most GSC West teams, as only five games remain on the aggregate schedule for non-division play.  The Bisons have a tune-up game tonight against Central Baptist before opening conference play Saturday at Arkansas-Monticello, which has struggled mightily through their fall schedule. I’ve been working on a few tweaks to the stat file […]

I’ll link to the Harding Sports page, but the story is from Searcy’s Daily Citizen.  Kelly Fenton tells the story of Matt Hall’s rehab and explains how he’s now a marked man in the GSC after winning the Player of the Year award as a sophomore. This got me thinking about an interesting part of […]

The Bisons fell last night 67-65 to Hawaii Pacific in their final game before the holidays, capping off a frustrating five-game losing streak.  Luckily, the Bisons have a tune-up game against Central Baptist on January 4th that will almost certainly get their non-conference record over .500 and break the losing streak before the conference season […]

The score was 75-72, and BYUH had to come from behind to pull out the home win.  This makes four losses in a row for the 6-5 Bisons.  Here are all the stats: Team stats:   HU BYUH +/- Eff 95.4 96.8 -1.4 TS% 55.9 61.0 -5.2 OR% 43.8% 23.1% 20.7% TR 24.2 23.3 0.9 […]

At long last, I have a review of Friday night’s game against Drury, but I feel compelled to share the reason for my delay.  Melissa’s car was stolen at some point Sunday night, and when you add that to the stress of trying to close on our house, well, it’s been a rough few days.  […]

It’s been a couple of years since I’ve recorded basketball stats on this site using Dean Oliver’s methodology, so I guess it’s time for a quick primer on his methodology. What Oliver does with his individual ratings is ultimately not that different from the stats I currently track using John Hollinger’s method.  I respect the […]

Over the past few season, I’ve been trying to figure out a good way to rate players individually.  At first, I came up with something on my own, but then I realized that other good metrics were already out there.  First, I came across Dean Oliver’s methods, which he detailed in his book, Basketball on […]

Saturday night’s game has me conflicted.  This is my third attempt to write a review for it, simply because I really can’t describe what a frustrating game it was.  Normally I like to at least get my review done on the day following a game, but this game left me with too much to say.  […]