By Kurt Bullard We are less than 24 hours away from the greatest four-day sporting spectacle known to man. While the games themselves are non-stop, exciting action, the hook that brings in the masses is obviously bracket...
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By Benedict Brady During the week leading up to the start of March Madness, hundreds and hundreds of articles are written on understanding the bracket, dissecting which upsets are the most likely and modeling...
By Andrew Puopolo This past weekend, Duke and Michigan were somewhat surprising winners of the ACC and Big 10 tournaments as 8 and 5 seeds, respectively. This made me wonder, are teams that win their conference...
By William Ezekowitz Preseason rankings may seem irrelevant when it comes to college basketball, but they are surprisingly important. For example, they are just as predictive of ending up in the Final Four as the current AP Poll...
By William Ezekowitz March is complicated. What follows is an attempt to make sense of the madness, and to give you solid statistical grounding in order to justify your decisions; that way, when your bracket is ruined, it can be...
By Henry Johnson March Madness is here, and with it are high hopes and lost revenue. Last night, the selection committee released the bracket for the 2017 tournament, and the ensuing uproar was enough to drown out even the...
By Kurt Bullard Transition buckets are a huge element of success in college hoops. About a quarter of shot opportunities from 2014-2016 in college basketball came on the break, with eFG% in those opportunities rising from 50.2...
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2016: A (Mostly) Statistical Year in Review
By Andrew Puopolo As 2016 winds to a close, we take a look back on 55 reasons why this year was a particularly crazy year in the world of sports. NFL 1.) Both teams that made the Super Bowl failed to make the playoffs the...
By Henry Johnson Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson aren’t just two of the sharpest shooters in basketball—they’re also NBA legacies. Dell Curry, Steph’s father, is the leading scorer in Charlotte Hornets history, and Mychal...
By Thomas Negron The Copa America quarterfinals are set after quite an eventful group stage. Brazil were knocked out by Peru and Ecuador after only being able to score against Haiti. Uruguay forgot to mention to Luis Suarez that...