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Prior to the season, I wrote a number of posts centered around advanced metrics and tempo-free stats, but with more college basketball writers and analysts starting to use them, it seemed like a good idea to provide a brief summary of the key stats and how they are calculated.
I hesitate to give anyone credit for how the schedule has played out, but whether it be by luck or by design, the college hoops slate has been terrific in the first week of post-football action.
With just over four weeks remaining until Selection Sunday, it’s time to start taking a weekly look at teams on the bubble. Since this is the first edition of the season, the list is fairly extensive, but with each week more teams will move themselves firmly into the field of 68 while others will fall off the bubble entirely.
In episode #21 of The Bottoms Line College Basketball Podcast, host Andy Bottoms is once again joined by Troy Machir of Ballin’ Is a Habit to discuss all the latest news and events in college basketball.
By the time you read this, the Super Bowl will be over, and the sports world will finally be able to turn more of its attention to college hoops.
A terrific Kansas-Missouri game on Saturday night provided a springboard into “Rivalry Week,” which features a number of intriguing matchups.
Before that tips off though, here are this week’s power rankings.
Before I touch on this week’s college basketball stock watch, allow me to give a personal stock down to pink eye, which has now afflicted both of my daughters and threatens to take over our home.
But hey, there’s nothing kids under the age of five like more than having to take eye drops every few hours, right?
So please join me in giving conjunctivitis a hearty “You suck!”
Alright, on to basketball…
In episode #20 of The Bottoms Line College Basketball Podcast, host Andy Bottoms is once again joined by Rob Dauster of Ballin’ Is a Habit to discuss all the latest news and events in college basketball.
In case you’ve been too caught up in the Super Bowl hype machine this week, the BracketBusters matchups for this season were announced on Monday. This marks the 10th year of the event, which now features a ridiculous 142 teams.
It sounds a bit odd to say this, but last week was relatively tame in the college hoops world since “only” nine teams in the Top 25 lost. Even so, there are no new teams in this week’s edition of my power rankings, just some jostling of positions.
March Madness 2012 can’t get here soon enough for me, although last Saturday’s action brought plenty of madness on its own.
Interestingly enough though, finding teams for this week’s stock watch was tough because so many teams appear to be locked into win-one, lose-one mode.
In episode #19 of The Bottoms Line College Hoops Talk Podcast, host Andy Bottoms is joined by Raphielle Johnson of CollegeHoopsNet to discuss all the latest news and events in college basketball.
This week’s episode features a thorough look at the world of college basketball with hot topics from all BCS conferences discussed as well as some notable mid-majors as well.
Saturday was arguably the best day of college basketball so far this season, as a pair of Top Five sqauds squared off, the top-ranked team went down, and a buzzer-beater ended a lengthy home winning streak just to name a few of the notable happenings.
And as usual, that led to plenty of shakeups in this week’s Top 25.
Dickie V is legendary. Any college basketball fan from over the last 30 years recognizes the face and the voice. He is ubiquitous. He has crisscrossed the country hundreds, maybe thousands of times.
It’s hard to believe that Selection Sunday is now less than two months away, and the bubble watch will soon be in full effect. In the meantime, there continues to be a lot of movement thanks to the general inability of teams to win away from home.
With that in mind, here are this week’s risers and fallers.
In episode #18 of The Bottoms Line College Basketball Podcast, host Andy Bottoms is once again joined by Rob Dauster and Troy Machir of Ballin’ Is a Habit to discuss all the latest news and events in college basketball.
