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While one can get lots of clicks ranting on social media a better strategy would be to encourage people to tune in by letting them know what great stuff they are missing. It is the difference between short term thinking and building something for the long term. If one wants to use the first...

Why do you think pre-season rankings had much influence?

Regarding the models, the lack of out of conference games among top teams has led to the few games that were played OOC to have far much weight. Since most of those games are in Nov/Dec, the few data points to link the conferences are those early games. It isn't the fault of the model that it...

I'm not really concerned about how well a team's finish correlates to tournament performance. My concern is that not rewarding conference championships properly is simply a bad decision because it should matter. If it is worth an auto-bid it should have some weight. Weighing non-conference...

The ACC earned 25 units in 2016.

I agree that's what they did.

You, and the committee, are not placing any value on winning a conference championship. In the misguided desire to compare conferences with limited data they placed MORE value on early, out of conference games than on clearly more important conference games and even more important conference...

Oral Roberts! Holy madness.

Hi right back at you. Drink a beer for me.

Slid to 4:15

Wojo will be slapping the floor at home.

I have nothing personal against Brian Gregory. The obvious reality was that his peak was reached in his final year with a senior laden team. That peak was the NIT after the annual quick exit from the ACCT. His teams never even played in an ACCT semifinal. He'd be a really good lead assistant...

Only one player who played 50% of available minutes from Gregory's NIT team returned the next year. That was Quinton Stephens at 50.2%. To say Pastner inherited a program in good shape, or even decent shape, is extremely dishonest, bordering on shameful deceit.

This team generates everything off of turnovers. Energy, easy baskets in transition, everything. It's been that way all year. It is fun basketball to watch.

That isn't what happened at all. Someone noticed all of the conferences were higher than the average over the last 19 years and Pomeroy found an error in his formula.

Just to clarify, the ratings go back to 2002. So the best in 20 years. The expanded conference will never be as good top to bottom. 7 out of 9 teams in the top 26 is nuts.

I have convinced myself that the committee wanted this matchup for this reason. It is about as attractive a first round game as there can be.

To finish the thought on 2005, while not nearly as dominant as 2004, the ACC was still first in kenpom. 5 out of 11 teams were in the kenpom top 25.

Here is the non-alternative fact version of history Team W L PCT W L PCT Conf Overall No. 6 Duke 13 – 3 .813 31 – 6 .838 No. 15 NC State 11 – 5 .688 21 – 10 .677 No. 17 Wake Forest 9 – 7 .563 21 – 10 .677 No. 14 Georgia Tech...

I don't know where you are getting your information. 8 of 9 teams won 18 or more games overall. The number of teams over .500 in conference says absolutely nothing about anything. The cumulative conference record is always .500.