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    PennSt coach

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    Pike on with Mad Dog at 4

    The tournament is: A TV show that generates billions for its rights holder The tournament is not: A single elimination contest for the country’s best basketball teams. The term you will see instead of “best” is “most deserving” - and the NCAA comes up with the criteria to decide who...
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    Yes, Rutgers got screwed (article)

    It's always going to be an 'eye test' by the eyes of the people on the committee. You can have all the guidelines you want, if there is no hard-and-fast arithmetical method, human beings are going to make human judgments. All the things being mentioned here really boil down to All bubble...
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    PSU Offense impressive…Solid D

    Lot of good stuff in there but this is one of two keys to playing Penn State: 1. If you have athletic guys in the wing who can get into the paint - not necessarily to score but to break down the defense - they’ve had trouble defending. They’ve changed some things up - I think stealing from...
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    Penn St has a new coach

    Completely assured ignorance with a dollop of casual racism - the internet at its finest!
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    3/10 Lunardi Bracketology

    Joe was the top flack at St Joe’s for 30 years, now has a position in marketing and ‘broadcast services’ there. I have no doubt that he enjoys the rabid critiques of his moving brackets (and resulting clicks), but he and the other ‘bracketologists’ really are in a competition amongst...
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    We'll see what this team is made of - Need to beat Northwestern and win at least one game in the Big Ten Tournament

    It’s that time of year when fans of teams on the bubble discover that (like every other year) bubble teams are very flawed and strong arguments can be made for leaving them out or letting them slide in.
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    Guess the Michigan Line

    I “remembered” some attempt to inject some defense into it, but there’s clearly no reference to it in that archive.org cached page. Without it, it’s really a poor measure of Caleb’s impact.
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    Guess the Michigan Line

    Caleb’s defense is no doubt undervalued. It’s harder to pull out of the available stats.
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    Guess the Michigan Line

    Bart attempts to quantify this with his PORPAGATU! stat. You can see RU’s guys at the bottom of the team page. A shorthand way to think of it is “points over the average player” that a player is worth. It undervalues defense, but you can plug in the guys who took the minutes of Mag (1.3...
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    Sat 1/28 and Sun 1/29

    It’s the weekend they raise money for childhood cancer charities - the shirts had something to do with that.
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    Kevin Willard rips Big Ten scheduling, says it’s responsible for conference’s national championship drought

    This might not be intuitive, but the scheduling problem for sports is so difficult test it has attracted serious attention from professional mathematicians for decades. Here’s a survey of papers from a few years ago for those who have 5-10 minutes and want to solve this. As soon as more than a...
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    OFFICIAL NET Thread - 2022/23

    Iowa to 60 in the NET (from 27). Ken Pomeroy discussed the somewhat counterintuitive effect on his ratings of pre-season data (and other good stuff) as the guest on yesterday’s Solving Basketball podcast.
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    OFFICIAL NET Thread - 2022/23

    Fell from 21 to 38 in KenPom.
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    Michigan state will be at the garden now official big ten announcement today

    Penn State is hosting Purdue at the Palestra in Philadelphia on Jan. 7. Classes begin on Jan. 9, so the game moved when the students were gone. Also, the previous Palestra games (vs. Michigan State and Iowa) were enormously successful. MSG is a fantastic place to see basketball and playing a...
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    More Hammond

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    For fans whining about recruiting via AAU programs

    Cliff’s PPRG! (Torvik) is 3.1. That would rank him tied for eighth among the 164 guys in the portal who are 6-9 and taller (my arbitrary cut off). Cliff’s BPR (evanmiya.com) is 19.1. That ranks him 11th among the 98 guys identified as pure 5 men in the portal. IMO, would be fair to eyeball...
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    For fans whining about recruiting via AAU programs

    Nike, Adidas and Under Armour are the biggest sponsors/funders. All three are sponsoring AAU tournaments this evaluation weekend.
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    Can/will Wright play the PG at Rutgers?

    To your point, at evanmiya.com there are 36 four-star (by his ranking system) pure 2 guards, Wright among them.
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