Last season marked the debut of the Big Ten’s 20-game conference schedule, the ACC will follow suit next season and the Pac-12 will implement the change the year after that, which means many power conference teams will play two fewer non-conference games annually for the foreseeable future. Now consider the recently announced scheduling alliance between […]
From an economics perspective, a first-mover advantage is when a company is the first to enter a given market and then reaps the benefits from its move. And in the world of college basketball recruiting, such an approach can be a hit-or-miss investment that may require a high school player’s profile to stay under the […]
The Big Ten sent eight teams to the 2019 NCAA Tournament, one year after only four teams from the conference made the Big Dance, and seven of them won at least one game in the tournament. Here are Stadium’s postseason grades for every team in the Big Ten, which take into account the unofficial preseason […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Moments after LSU players mobbed Tremont Waters following the game-winning basket that sent the Tigers to the Sweet 16, the staff and players raised four fingers on each hand while facing the contingent of supporters behind the bench. It was a tribute. Not to their missing coach, but instead to their fallen […]
Six of the top 10 prospects from the 2018 recruiting class play for a national championship contender and the same could be said of 14 of the top 25 recruits, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings. Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina, Nevada, Kansas and LSU are among the 16 teams with the best odds of winning […]
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 […]
Four ranked teams are in action Sunday, highlighted by a top-25 matchup in the Big Ten between Michigan and Maryland. There’s also a Big East clash between first-place Marquette and Creighton that should be a high-scoring affair. The last time these two teams met, they combined to score 210 points. Here’s a look at the […]
Nine ranked teams are in action Wednesday night, including four teams in the top 10 of the latest AP poll. Five teams in the AP Top 25 will play on the road against an unranked opponent, including the premier game of the night that features No. 10 Marquette at Villanova, so it’s unlikely they all […]
There are nine new locks across college basketball’s top seven conference in this week’s NCAA Tournament Bracket Scouting, where we evaluate teams’ resumes and what opportunities they have left in the regular season to climb onto the right side of the bubble. As a reminder, here’s how we’re defining each category. Lock = These teams could […]
In two weeks, the West Coast Conference Tournament will be underway and we’ll be preparing for the start of the MAC Tournament on Monday, March 11, the ACC Tournament on Tuesday, March 12, and the rest of the major conference tournaments on Wednesday, March 13. These conference tournaments will provide teams the opportunity to earn […]
Eight ranked teams are in action on Tuesday night, including a matchup between ranked Big Ten teams and an in-state rivalry game in the conference. Here’s a look at how tonight’s intriguing matchups could impact the NCAA Tournament resumes of the programs involved. The NCAA Tournament seed projections are from Stadium’s latest tournament update. Vanderbilt […]
The most notable result from Week 15 in college basketball was Kentucky’s dominant performance in an 86-69 win over No. 1 Tennessee, which gave the Volunteers their first loss since late November. Tennessee earned the No. 1 ranking in the AP Top 25 poll in each of the last four weeks so we’ll almost certainly […]
Selection Sunday is exactly a month away, which means there’s up to three weeks left of regular season action before the start of conference tournaments. Since last week’s edition of NCAA Tournament Bracket Scouting, we added six new teams that are “locks” to make the tournament. As a reminder, here’s how we’re defining each category. […]
After predicting the 2019 over/under win totals for the ACC and SEC, let’s turn to the Big Ten — a conference with its own unique scheduling format. While the ACC and SEC both utilize an eight-game conference schedule, the Big Ten deploys a nine-game format. In theory, this makes the regular season for all their teams […]
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 […]