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NCAA Tournament Betting Preview: No. 14 Akron vs. No. 3 Creighton

No. 14 Akron play No. 3 Creighton on Thursday. The crew discusses the game.

  • March 18,2019
  • Chinmay Vaidya

What Would the 2019 NCAA Tournament Look Like Based on NET Rankings?

When the NCAA announced the creation of a new metric to gauge college basketball teams, it was billed as an all-encompassing formula that would displace traditional metrics like RPI and effectively measure teams throughout the season. “What has been developed is a contemporary method of looking at teams analytically, using results-based and predictive metrics that […]

  • March 5,2019
  • Andy Wittry

NCAA Tournament Bracket Scouting Daily: Duke, Michigan State, UT & More

Eleven ranked teams are in action Tuesday night, including five teams ranked in the top 10 and nine teams that are projected to earn a top-four seed in the NCAA Tournament, according to Stadium’s latest NCAA Tournament projections. Here’s a look at the biggest games on Tuesday night and how their results could affect the […]

  • March 5,2019
  • Brett McMurphy, Stadium College Football Insider

College Football Bowl Game Changes to Begin in 2020

Beginning in 2020, the Las Vegas Bowl will annually feature a team from the Pac-12 against a team from the SEC or Big Ten, and a new bowl in Los Angeles will feature the Pac-12 against the Mountain West, sources told Stadium. Other changes: The ACC will add the Holiday Bowl, the SEC and Big […]

  • March 4,2019
  • Andy Wittry

Predicting the College Basketball AP Top 25 Poll for Week 18

Fourteen ranked teams lost since the release of the last AP Top 25 poll, including No. 3 Duke at Virginia Tech. No. 1 Gonzaga finished conference play with an undefeated conference record, as did Wofford. Here’s how we predict the college basketball AP Top 25 poll to look like in Week 18.   1. Gonzaga […]

  • February 12,2019
  • Andy Wittry

NCAA Tournament Bracket Scouting Daily: Duke, Kentucky, Michigan & More

Tuesday night’s slate of college basketball games features 12 teams ranked in the latest AP Top 25 Poll, four games between ranked teams and eight teams that were included in last Saturday’s top-16 seed reveal. It’s a night that could decide how the top four seeds in each region ultimately shake out. For teams that […]

  • January 28,2019
  • Andy Wittry

Buying High, Selling Low on College Basketball’s Conundrum Teams

Duke and Virginia are unanimously top-four teams in the country, according to college basketball’s primary advanced analytics. The Blue Devils and Cavaliers are ranked No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, in the latest AP Top 25 Poll and they’re No. 1 and No. 2, in reverse order, according to the predictive metrics of the popular […]

  • January 11,2019
  • Jeff Goodman, Stadium Basketball Insider

MAC College Basketball Coaches Rank the Best Jobs in the Conference

This is the latest in Stadium’s “Conference Chain of Command” series in which we polled a handful of veteran coaches in every league to determine the best JOBS in each league, all the way down to the ones that are the most difficult. Here are the eight categories that were utilized to determine the overall […]

  • January 8,2019
  • Andy Wittry

Ranking the Best Conferences From the 2018 College Football Season

Clemson won the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship, its second national title in three years, but the ACC only had one other team ranked in the final AP Top 25 Poll, so the conference offers an interesting profile for how it stacked up with the rest of the conferences nationally last season. The Big […]

  • December 19,2018
  • Jeff Goodman, Stadium Basketball Insider

Jim Boeheim on Syracuse: “We’re Just Not Good”

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — After a second consecutive setback at the Carrier Dome at the hands of a mid-major program, Jim Boeheim had a reminder for those who picked his Orange to contend for an ACC title this season. “This is the same team that lost 14 games last season,” Boeheim said following the loss to […]

  • December 19,2018
  • Brett McMurphy, Stadium College Football Insider

Push to Expand Four-Team Playoff Gains Steam Among College Football Playoff Management Committee

Before this season, College Football Playoff Executive Director Bill Hancock said the CFP Management Committee was “quite happy with the four-team playoff.” That is certainly not the case anymore. Stadium contacted all 11 members of the College Football Playoff Management Committee – the 10 conference commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletic director. They were asked individually […]


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