NCAA Hoops Archive

  • History Prematurely Crowns Duke as National Champions

    History Prematurely Crowns Duke as National Champions

    If we take a look at historic trends, it would appear that Duke has already won the National Championship.  Here are the trends that back up that claim: Trend 1: Prior to this year, 20 of the previous 23 NCAA Basketball titles had been won by teams who scored 77+ points per game and had a [...]

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  • Rating the Tournament Teams

    Rating the Tournament Teams

    My model for rating College Basketball teams is far from perfect, but it is very servicable for predicting future outcomes. The one knock on it is the lack of Strength of Schedule accountability. Rather going through a complex process, which I will next year, I decided to go with a quick fix. [...]

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  • Top 10 March Madness Ball Hogs

    Top 10 March Madness Ball Hogs

    The following 10 players are vital to their team’s success. Shutting down these players will almost guarantee a victory for the opposing team. However, these players are all capable of torching an opposing defense: 1. Jimmer Fredette, Brigham Young Used on 32.1% of Possessions Using KenPom’s handy player efficiency leaderboards, we can see that Jimmer [...]

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  • College Hoops Top 25 Rankings (Feb 9th)

    College Hoops Top 25 Rankings (Feb 9th)

    Utah State continues to climb the Future of Fantasy Rankings, but is it only due to their cupcake schedule? Only time will tell.  Who are the most overrated teams by the AP Polls?  According to Future of Fantasy’s system, #20 Georgia Tech and #21 Temple shouldn’t even be in the Top 50. Now the Top [...]

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  • College Hoops Top 25 Rankings (Jan 27th)

    College Hoops Top 25 Rankings (Jan 27th)

    College Basketball has really heated up since our previous Rankings, two weeks ago. Then #1 Kansas got dethroned by the Walk-Ons of Tennessee, which made Texas the top dogs. Texas didn’t handle that well, losing their next two games.  Which led Kentucky to speak up and say “Hey guys, this #1 business isn’t so [...]

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