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In Which an Infinite Number of Monkeys Brag About Picking Northern Iowa
By David Roher There are over nine quintillion ways to fill out your bracket, and over four hundred trillion ways to predict the first two rounds alone. Based on the craziness of the first four days of...
View ArticleNot a Post About LeBron…Sorta
By Daniel Adler It is annoying to see the Heat rewarded for wasting one of Dwyane Wade’s prime seasons by making little attempt to get better and instead clearing cap space. Equally frustrating is the...
View ArticleThe Most Unlikely College Basketball Result of 2010
I have been working on a long term project to create a database of results of college basketball teams on what Ken Pomeroy has called “high leverage” possessions. Namely, possessions in which a team is...
View ArticleUp Three, Time Running Out, Do We Foul? The First Comprehensive CBB Analysis
By John Ezekowitz Back in March, Maryland and Michigan State played one of the best final minutes of an NCAA Tournament game in recent memory. Down two points with a timeout left after a Greivis...
View ArticleHow to Draw Fouls and Win Close Basketball Games: Don’t Call Timeout?
By John Ezekowitz After first writing about the decision to intentionally foul when up three, I’m continuing my analysis of the very end of close college basketball games by examining how calling a...
View ArticleLate Game Timeouts: If the Game is Tied, Let Them Play
By John Ezekowitz Last week I began my analysis of intentionally fouling while up three at the end of college basketball games with the story of Tom Izzo’s split second decision not to call timeout...
View ArticleLate Game Timeouts Part II: What Happens When Trailing
By John Ezekowitz Two weeks ago, I published the first part of my late game timeout study from the 2009-2010 season. I found that when the score was tied, not calling a timeout was more effective than...
View ArticleBack to Back Blues? The Effect of Road Trips in the Ivy League
By John Ezekowitz Basketball coaches do not universally agree on much, but I think there are two things they would all agree on: if given the choice, they would rather play at home, and would rather...
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Ohio Basketball Streaks: Which Was More Improbable?
By Arjun Modi and Daniel Adler Which streak was more notable? Going into this past weekend, two Ohio basketball teams were streaking, but within just 24 hours, both streaks were over. On Friday...
View ArticleScott Howard vs. Teen Wolf or Steve Nash vs. ‘Nique Wilkins
by Alex Koenig The debate over Teen Wolf is at bottom a debate over the soul of basketball, and that’s one reason even people who are not Bill Simmons talk about the movie today. Let’s just state the...
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