By Daniel Alpert Round one of March Madness 2016 is in the books. From 15-seeded Middle Tennessee taking down Michigan St. to UNI hitting a half-court buzzer-beater to sink Texas, this year’s first round was full of upsets...
Category - NCAA Basketball
By Benedict Brady As we get deeper into the March Madness tournament, it is tough to weight the importance of a team’s seed with its performance in previous tournament games this year. While most people would not initially pick...
By William Ezekowitz Here’s a dirty little secret about March Madness. The difference between a bad bracket and a good bracket is skill, but the difference between a good bracket and a great bracket is luck. Anyone who has won...
by William Ezekowitz Preseason rankings. Irrelevant in professional sports, weirdly important in college basketball. I have shown in the past that they overvalue previous year’s tournament success, so they clearly aren’t...
By Kurt Bullard Come March Madness, there are few things that one should undoubtedly expect to unfold. But over the last decade or so, one thing that people have grown accustomed to is Michigan State outperforming its seed. The...
By Kurt Bullard Tens of thousands of people will travel to New Haven this Saturday to Harvard will take on Yale this weekend in what is the 132th rendition of The Game. Last year, the stakes of the rivalry game were clear: a...
By Harrison Chase and Austin Tymins Over the past two weeks, we have been putting out articles with our POWER rankings for the 2015 NFL season, which are based on average win expectancy over the course of the game. While we have...
By Kurt Bullard Not all turnovers are created equal. Just ask Utah wideout Kaelin Clay, who last year had just torched the Oregon defense for what appeared to be a 78-yard score before he Desean Jackson’d the ball at the...
By Brendan Kent In very few nations does politics become entangled with everything else so much as in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Political ideology manifests itself in film, music, cultural celebrations, and...
DeMarco Murray came into the season one of the top ranked running backs, and has put up only 8.1 points per game so far this season – falling drastically in the rankings as a result. Still, he’s doing better than C.J...