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 [...]
NCSU basketball by the numbers
I compiled statistics from several years to get an idea how this years team is doing compared to previous teams. I have also included numbers from the middle of the current year so we can see how ACC play changes the numbers. For fun, I added Sendek’s last year just to see how they compare. I wanted [...]
The State of State 2.0 – Men’s Basketball
With the season officially getting underway this week, I thought I would share some historical stats on our men’s basketball program. Similar entires for football, women’s basketball and championships can be found here and here and here. Men’s Basketball I. Records ACC Record: 397-401 (.497) ACC Record Pre-Fowler: 331-323 (.506) ACC Record Under Fowler: 66-78 [...]
The kind of analysis that deserves front page billing
Our new forums (and even our new Twitter activity) have become fantastic places to share a higher volume of information and items from the internet that we can’t necessarily find the opportunity to share on the front page of the blog. But, this morning we ran across a few items that deserve front page billing. [...]
Wilson the Passer vs. Wilson the Runner
There’s been lots of chatter in the comments and in the forums about Wilson not looking to run. I don’t think that is the case, and the stats back that up. Wilson had 11 rushing attempts last night, compared to an average of 11.56 per game last year (in the 9 games where he played [...]
Stat of the Day: Sagarin Strength of Schedule ratings (2000-2008)
Sunday Stats & Conversation, Izzo Style
And just so we’re clear, understand that I’m not trying to diminish Michigan State’s roster; it’s a fine roster. But I’m not sure how many future NBA players are on that roster, and I am sure it’s not a roster as good as Connecticut’s roster. But MSU’s roster just beat UConn’s roster of pros by [...]
NCAA Tournament Teams That Get All The Calls – Carolina, Connecticut and Chattanooga?
During our ACC Tournament viewing party, the subject came up of how much more North Carolina goes to the free throw line than their opponents. One of the excuses we had always heard was that their talent level discrepancy leads to the free throw discrepancy (and absolutely nothing to do with biased officiating…) This led us to wonder about a team like Memphis that utterly dominates Conference USA and is head and shoulders above the rest of the league, what sort of free throw advantage do they have?
Georgia Tech barely misses mark for ACC futility
The 2008-2009 version of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets finished ACC play with a 2-14 record after losing on a buzzer beater at Boston College on Saturday. The Yellow Jackets joined an ‘exclusive’ club of horrible teams in ACC history who lost 14 games in a season. Clemson was 0-14 in 1955 Georgia Tech was [...]
Saturday’s Stat of the Day
A team ranked either #1 or #2 in the BCS standings has lost their final game 11 different times in the past 10 years! UPDATE: The trend continues today as #1 Alabama lost 31-20 to #4 Florida. Let’s use this entry as Saturday’s open entry to discuss the Wolfpack’s game with Davidson as well as [...]