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Pomeroy Has Boston College At No. 175
Last week, the most respected and referenced college hoops rankings, KenPom.com, published its 2011-12 projections. The site has Boston College at No. 175, comfortably between the WAC's Idaho and the Big 12's Texas Tech. Pomeroy projects a 10-18 (4-12 ACC) season for the Eagles. Here's how Pomeroy...
Texas Longhorns vs. Kansas Jayhawks Preview (pt. 2): the Gameplan According to KenPom
Recently, Ken Pomeroy added a new feature to his site called "Game Plan". If you don't frequent www.KenPom.com, you're really missing out. No one does a better job of taking easily misused box score statistics and converting them into efficiency (i.e. Duke's bad field goal percentage being...
Boston College Hoops Look Ahead And The Big Finish
Brian: Jeff has escaped the snow of South Carolina for some place warm, so we bring in BCRaj for this week's Big Finish. In the last two games, the Eagles have gotten two big ACC wins over Georgia Tech (86-75) and N.C. State (75-66). Now the Eagles hit the road, with three of their next four ACC...
Men's Basketball Outlook: Bleak
Oklahoma's record stands at 3-3, with an additional preseason victory against Northern State. Their three victories were against Coppin State, North Carolina Central (which required overtime), and Texas Southern. It's also important to point out that they lost to Division II Chaminade. According to...
Fascinating Stat of the Day
If only to get Giant Kiffins off the top of the damn page, I present to you this fascinating factoid I came across from the fabulous college hoops writer/statistician Ken Pomeroy, in a post titled "The Pre-Season AP Poll Is Great": As things stand, the in-season polls are not very useful in this...
Some highlights from the individual KenPom rankings
Did you know... Klay Thompson is seventh nationally in the percentage of shots he takes relative to the rest of his team? Klay fires off 37% of all Cougar shot attempts. DeAngelo Casto is 31st nationally in block percentage? I know, that's not very surprising. He was 41st last year as a freshman....
A KenPom Preview: Memphis Tigers
So, I basically lied. No other content came out over the weekend. My b. But I couldn't see the Hofstra game anyways, so any thoughts I had would have been limited to the box score. Fortunately, pending some ridiculous multiple-overtime Xavier game tonight, I should be able to watch the...
The Song Remains The Same
You may remember a look at how Penn State stacked up against Notre Dame through the eyes of the computer models. And so to beat a dead horse give you all an update for Thursday's (nit) National Championship matchup: School KenPom Rank KenPom Score Predicted W...
Notre Dame Is In The Computer
Only becuase it's the first Google image result for "subway domers basketball" A look at Penn State, Notre Dame, and the MSG in ones and zeros. KenPom... School KenPom Rank KenPom Score Predicted W Notre Dame 34 .8865 66% Penn State 68 .8014 34% We...
A KenPom Preview: Michigan State
As always, these are based off of the KenPom pages. Here is Michigan State's. Opening Thoughts Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. I forgot how absolutely nerve-racking the Sweet 16 is. Really, though, there isn't a whole lot to be nervous about. For one, and more importantly, we've already surpassed...
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