By Julian Ryan Tomorrow afternoon Harvard will attempt to begin its Cinderella story against Cincinnati in lovely Spokane, powered by an experienced squad and a very high three point percentage of .390, good for 22nd in the...
Category - NCAA Basketball
By Will Ezekowitz With the NCAA Tournament around the corner, HSAC has decided to provide a list of statistics to help you fill out your bracket. Granted, these facts won’t necessarily determine the outcomes of any games;...
By Jake Lynch After winning its conference tournament this last weekend, the Wichita State Shockers became the first Division I men’s basketball team to enter March Madness undefeated since the 1991 UNLV Runnin’ Rebels...
By Julian Ryan While the majority of HSAC posts have nothing to do with Harvard, at the end of the day we are Harvard students and more importantly, Harvard basketball fans. So given this year’s team is arguably the best ever...
by Julian Ryan In America, March is the month of the Cinderella story for even the most casual of college basketball followers. Millions of fans will turn on their televisions in the hope of watching the next Butler make a run...
It’s been a while since our last set of links, but we’re back in force to bring you the best reads from around the web for your weekend reading. – Jeff Sullivan analyzes Justin Verlander’s $180 million...
The goal of every team in the NCAA tournament is to survive and advance. And, if you want to win your March Madness pool, your goal should be to predict which teams will do just that. Most prediction systems view the NCAA...
For the past two years, I have worked on a model that predicts NCAA Tournament upsets using the gospel of tempo-free basketball stats, the Four Factors. Over that time, the model has gone a perfect six for six in predicting 11...
Ask any player or coach in the Ivy League which gym is the toughest to play in, and you will get a near unanimous response: Jadwin Gymnasium at Princeton University. The Palestra may get (a lot) louder, and the road trip from...
Despite taking quite the beating recently, the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) is still the official and favored ranking system of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Selection Committee. The RPI does not take into account margin of...