You have to hand it to UNC: those guys have unmitigated gall. Before their new chancellor has her first day on the job, and before lame-duck Chancellor Holden Thorp can announce whatever his “blue-ribbon” panel led by led by Hunter Rawlings, president of the Association of American Universities, has come up with, UNC athletic director [...]
Selection Sunday Bubble Thoughts
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 [...]
Pre-ACCT Bubble Watch
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 the only [...]
Bubble Review
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 of the [...]
Computer Rankings and Post-season Discussion
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 now: [...]
VA Wolf’s research highlighted
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 [...]
ACC Eyes Expanding BBall Schedule; Guess who is interviewed?
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 [...]
2008 Bubble Thoughts
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 [...]
RPI-ology
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 and [...]
NC State 73, Virginia Tech 63 – Wolfpack Takes Key Step Back into Top 40
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 [...]