Archive for the ‘D-I Basketball’ Category

Duke – Your 2010 National Champions

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

Like a bear emerging from hibernation to eat, I will take the chance today to return from my blogging hiatus, if only briefly, to celebrate one of my favorite teams reaching the pinnacle of their sport. That's right - I was one of the few non-Duke-alumni not rooting for the underdogs ...

NCAA Tourney Notes: Sweet Sixteen

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

A few things to chew on as the NCAA Tournament kicks back into gear tonight: Eight of the top ten and 13 of the top 16 teams in Ken Pomeroy's final regular season rankings are still alive in the NCAA Tournament, which this year has been mostly devoid of upsets.  All ...

Back from vacation, ready for a vacation from vacation

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

I've had a fun week and a half, but I'm ready to be at home for a while now.  Tonight will be the first night since 3/12 that I've spent back-to-back nights at home and the first night in almost a week that I've spent back-to-back nights at the same ...

2009 NCAA Tournament Log5 and Picks

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

I don't have a lot of commentary right now since I'm on vacation (spring training is pretty cool, you know), but I have made my NCAA Tournament picks and computed the Log5 win probabilities based on KenPom's rankings. See below.  There are actually five brackets there (my ESPN entries), but #1 ...

Scouting the 2009 NCAA Tournament: Top Teams

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

This is the fourth installment of a four-part series on scouting the 2009 NCAA Tournament.  Check out the intro, Part 1 (small conferences), Part 2 (mid-majors), and Part 3 (power conferences). With just a few days left until Selection Sunday and many conference tournaments either underway or complete, I will attempt ...