The preseason No. 1 team in college basketball last season played in the Big 12, but it was upstart Texas Tech that had the best NCAA Tournament run of any team in the conference as the Red Raiders finished as national runners-up. Because of their regular season and postseason success, especially compared to Texas Tech’s […]
Virginia won the first men’s basketball national championship in school history Monday night, which means three different ACC teams have won a national title in the last five years. The Cavaliers’ title goes a long way as we examine how college basketball’s best conferences stacked up against each other last season. NCAA Tournament participation and […]
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 […]
It’s officially the week of the 2019 NCAA Tournament. The bracket has been released and we’re here to help you make your picks. We assembled a four-person panel that includes Stadium’s Chinmay Vaidya, Michael Rizzo, Andy Wittry and Michael Bolling. We asked our panel seven questions about the NCAA Tournament bracket, including topics ranging from […]
It’s time to unveil my All-Americans, and while it got closer towards the end, the National Player of the Year Award wasn’t really that difficult to determine. Neither was the Coach of the Year — even though there were plenty of candidates. Here are all the awards, along with the All-Americans, a Mid-Major AA Team […]
College basketball’s regular season is officially over and conference tournament action is underway. There’s a new AP Top 25 poll to reflect the results from the final week of the regular season after North Carolina completed a season sweep of Duke, as did Michigan State against Michigan and Houston against Cincinnati. Here are reactions to […]
Once the 2019 NCAA Tournament bracket is revealed on Selection Sunday, we’ll be able to break down which matchups and potential paths to Minneapolis are conducive to the latest batch of national title contenders. But until then, we took another approach at examining this year’s top programs: karma. There’s no stat for karma, but in […]
Three ranked teams are in action Monday night and each plays an unranked opponent, including Virginia and Kansas State, whose opponents are currently projected to be NCAA Tournament teams. As for Syracuse, Texas and TCU, they’re all currently on the right side of the bubble as a projected No. 9, No. 10 and No. 11 […]
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 […]
It’s March 3 and…80 percent of the Big East is on the NCAA Tournament bubble? Welcome to NCAA Tournament Bracket Scouting, where we analyze the NCAA Tournament resumes and upcoming opportunities among tournament hopefuls from the top six conferences in college basketball. As a reminder, here’s how we define each category. Lock = These teams could […]
Neither Duke nor LSU will win the 2019 national championship, if a recent historical trend holds true. Since the 1999-’00 season, 2011’s UConn roster holds the distinction as being the worst three-point shooting team that’s won the National Championship Game. The Huskies made just 32.9 percent of their threes for the season, and they actually […]
Monday is a huge day for the Big 12 with four projected NCAA Tournament teams facing each other. One game will have major ramifications on the Big 12 regular season championship race and Kansas’ ability to keep its streak of regular season titles alive. The other could put Oklahoma squarely on the bubble. Here’s a […]
There were significant changes in the latest AP Top 25 poll with the order of the top three teams changing from last week, including a new No. 1 team in the country. Nine of the top 10 teams changed their positioning from a week ago and three teams joined the AP poll since last week. […]
We’re about to reach the stage of the college basketball season where you’ll likely hear about “how weak the bubble is this year” in the weeks leading up to the NCAA Tournament. It’s a refrain that is repeated seemingly annually by college basketball analysts and optimistic fans whose teams aren’t locks to make the tournament. […]
We’re officially less than a month away from Selection Sunday, and we’re about 2.5 weeks from the start of conference tournament play. That means time is running out for schools to climb onto the right side of the projected NCAA Tournament bubble, improve their projected seed or contend for a No. 1 seed. The latest […]