NCAA Seeding -- A Lot of Noise
The 2013 NCAA tournament has afforded another experiment on whether the seeding process incorporates much more noise than signal. For those following the tournament, it should come as no surprise ...The Media and Sports Royalty
The web buzzed this morning over John Calipari's remarks concerning Duke's flopping, USA Today, Huffington, ... Coach K's responded, but his reply subtly tells Calipari's story, "There's a difference between ...Minimum Age for the NBA
Steve Kerr, former player and current TV analyst, proposes raising the NBA minimum age from 19 to 20 in a recent Grantland column. His argument is simple, the move makes ...Scheduling Thoughts: PGA Tour & NCAA
A couple of articles, both related to scheduling, caught my attention recently. First, Bob Harig at ESPN ponders "Why the No Shows for the PGA Tour Opener?". Eleven of the ...Sports Commissioners in the "Gangster" Era
"I talked to that whole staff. I said this is my city. I'm cut from a different cloth. None of them guys on their team is like me. I let ...NCAA Super Slam 2011
93 total points. No, it was not Bowling Green Junior High v. South Warren Middle School, a game from the 1930s, or Dean Smith using the "four corners" offense for ...Coaching Ambition and Folly
As WKU recently endured a humiliating home beatdown by Louisville, my thoughts turned to one of the assistant coaches on the Louisville bench -- Ralph Willard -- and his coaching ...More Big 10 Expansion Talk - Does Basketball Matter?
Following up on Brad's post about Big 10 expansion plans, it looks like the football coaches in the Big XII have no idea what's going on in Expando World. At ...Best of the Rest: NCAA Performance Outside "Big Six" Conferences
Four years after George Mason Wins the Lottery, Butler has reached the thin air normally reserved for teams from the "major conferences." Their success prompted me to do a comparison ...
