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Stat of the day
This season marked the 35th anniversary of NC State’s 1974 National Basketball Championship (that, evidently, the NCAA forgot about). This link will take you to some recent related content about the topic. A friend of ours passed along the following observation that we thought we would share: I wonder what the RPI of the 1973-1974 team [...]
Continue reading...Selection Sunday Bubble Thoughts
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln As I pondered the post-selection thoughts by the ESPN talking heads, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the advice given by our 16th president. Ole Digger seems to have taken this advice to heart, while [...]
Continue reading...Pre-ACCT Bubble Watch
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
This has to be one of the most boring bubble watches that I have ever put together because the groups seem so obvious: UNC WF, Duke, FSU, and Clemson are absolute locks for the NCAAT. I haven’t done a great deal of analysis on tournament seeding, but my gut says that UNC is [...]
Continue reading...Bubble Review
Friday, March 6, 2009
I always enjoy looking at the ACC just before the ACCT starts and discuss who needs to do what to get an at-large bid to the NCAAT. As a precursor to that discussion, this looks like a good time to summarize what we have learned over the past several years about moving off [...]
Continue reading...Computer Rankings and Post-season Discussion
Thursday, February 19, 2009
I don’t have the time to offer much analysis in this entry (that is best left to Vawolf82), but with five games left in the season now is a good time to see where NC State stands in the various computer rankings and how that projects for post-season play. There are four post-season tournaments [...]
Continue reading...VA Wolf’s research highlighted
Thursday, July 10, 2008
We found an incoming link to SFN from a great blog named, “The Hot Hand in Sports”. In this entry Hot Hand takes a look at Fresno State’s run to the NCAA Baseball Championship and links to an old SFN entry focused on RPIs. Just thought you may have some interest. The blog is unique [...]
Continue reading...ACC Eyes Expanding BBall Schedule; Guess who is interviewed?
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
The ACC’s total of 19 NCAA tournament wins from 2006 to ‘08 is an all-time low for a three-year period since 1979-81, which was before the tournament expanded to 64 teams. The Big East, Pac-10 and Big Ten all play 18 conference games and got higher percentages of their members into the NCAA tournament in [...]
Continue reading...2008 Bubble Thoughts
Sunday, March 23, 2008
There have been some interesting comments made about the Bubble this year that need to be saved for future reference. Plus Alpha/RAWFS has fixed it so I can use tables again….so here goes a little supplemental information about this year’s marginal selections/snubs: Let’s start with some tables that go pretty well with a commentary from last [...]
Continue reading...RPI-ology
Monday, March 17, 2008
Earlier this year I made the mistake of allowing myself to get sucked into a ‘hypothetical’ conversation about NC State’s chances of making the NCAA Tournament. At the time our Wolfpack was tracking in the 30s and 40s of the RPI and I was trying to use facts and statistics to de-bunk ridiculous statements [...]
Continue reading...NC State 73, Virginia Tech 63 – Wolfpack Takes Key Step Back into Top 40
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Sidney Lowe continued his mastery of “Basketball Grobe” tonight as the NC State Wolfpack won for the third time in the last four games. The Wolfpack is now 15-7 with an ACC record that now stands at .500 at 4-4. NC State never trailed in route to our second consecutive win over a team ahead of [...]
Continue reading...Miami Beats Clemson, Potentially Helps Pack
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Frank Haith’s Miami Hurricanes beat Clemson, 75-72, today in a key ACC match-up that may ultimately serve to support NC State’s slim chances to earn an NCAA Tournament bid when the 2007-2008 college basketball regular season comes to a close. I definitely understand that Clemson will have a stronger mathematical impact on NC State’s RPI than [...]
Continue reading...State’s ACC Schedule
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Jeff’s partial listing of RPI rankings earlier this week held several surprises and spurred me into looking at State’s ACC schedule versus these too-early RPI rankings. So let’s look a little closer at the surprises (well they surprised me anyway) as well as State’s ACC schedule which doesn’t open until next weekend against UNC. STATE The unpleasant [...]
Continue reading...Clearing the Bubble
Sunday, February 4, 2007
As the college basketball season moves into the last month of the season, bracketology and bubble talk will fill the air waves and internet message boards. After the last five seasons, there is probably no fan base better qualified to discuss the minimum requirements necessary to clear the bubble and land in the [...]
Continue reading...Finishing Strong
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Among the many things that I see on NC State message boards after ugly “preseason” losses are statements like: - State often lays a few eggs early in the year. - State starts slow but always finishes the year strong. So I decided to see if these statements are grounded in reality or wishful thinking: BAD LOSSES There are at [...]
Continue reading...RPI Never “Meaningless”; State’s Win Fails to Move Needle
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
NC State’s win over #8 ranked Georgia Tech doesn’t seem to have mathematically done much for the Wolfpack’s quest to get back on the radar of the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee. Heading into Sunday’s agame, State’s RPI was a paltry #115 and Georgia Tech’s was in the Top 15. After the evening, State’s RPI improved only six [...]
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
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