Much to my surprise, Massey’s compiled rankings are not in the same order each week or have the same individual rankings each week. I have them listed here in alphabetical order. Games Thru: 2/12/2006 Composite Rank: 15 NC State’s Record: 19-5 (8-3) Rank r Rank r AccuRatings 13 -2 Pigskin […]
POD Analysis
The NCAA changed the opening round of the tournament by instituting a “pod” system several years ago to replace the standard regional format. Eight first- and second-round sites are distributed around the four regionals. Teams are assigned to first- and second-round sites so as to limit the early-round travel of as many teams as possible. […]
Missed Opportunity
Instead of moving up with a road win, State dropped down four with the loss. This was State’s first loss of the year to an RPI-100+ team. You can try to polish that up if you like…but I think you will end up just making a mess. This game illustrates why the RPI and other […]
Looking for Brackets?
I love college basketball and have ever since elementary school. However, I absolutely hate brackets. I hate reading about them starting in January. I hate the discussions on filling them out. I hate listening to the idiotic ESPN talking heads droning on about how their brackets are doing instead of the actual NCAAT games. I […]
RPI Update
After an exciting night of basketball, it’s a shame that the graphs aren’t nearly as thrilling (only State’s graph updated today). A road victory moved State’s RPI into the Top-20…its best ranking all year. State’s RPI Graph State still stands at 4-4 against the RPI Top-50. Alabama came through and managed to beat Vandy in […]
A Warning About Cupcakes
Making fun of people that put together brackets in January is a lot like shooting fish in a barrel. But that shouldn’t stop us from pointing out the mistakes and faulty logic displayed by Joe Lunardi of ESPN when he took a shot at teams with weak OOC schedules this week: The NCAA Tournament committee […]
Does Maryland Still Have a Chance?
With three straight losses, I had basically written Maryland off when I did yesterday’s RPI update. Later, I started wondering if I had written them off too soon and decided to take a little closer look. Here’s Maryland’s record since the end of the OOC cupcakes: Sat Jan 7 (61) Miami FL 84, Maryland 70 […]
RPI Update
Going 2-0 at home, State avoided the type of RPI hit that we discussed last week. While home wins don’t count as much as road ones…they are all are good. State is in second-place in the ACC…both in the conference standings and in the RPI: NC State’s RPI I don’t think that many people expect […]
Road Victories – Home Losses
Last night I was wearing out the remote watching GW vs Xavier, UNC vs UMd, and Smallville. The Xavier game was crucial to keep GW in the top-50 and protect one of State’s two wins vs top-50 opponents. The ACC match-up featured State’s next opponent…and two of State’s most hated rivals. (And you never know […]
RPI Update -6
Never ascribe to malice those things easily explained by incompetence. Napoleon Bonaparte I guess Napoleon wouldn’t be surprised that even though I live within two hours of both UVa and VT, that neither mid-week game would be available via cable…but we did get WF/UM and of course Duke/BC. Reports on message boards from Richmond say […]
