This season marked the 35th anniversary of NC State’s 1974 National Basketball Championship (that, evidently, the NCAA forgot about). This link will take you to some recent related content about the topic. A friend of ours passed along the following observation that we thought we would share: I wonder what the RPI of the 1973-1974 […]
Stat of the Day
Sunday Stats & Conversation, Izzo Style
And just so we’re clear, understand that I’m not trying to diminish Michigan State’s roster; it’s a fine roster. But I’m not sure how many future NBA players are on that roster, and I am sure it’s not a roster as good as Connecticut’s roster. But MSU’s roster just beat UConn’s roster of pros by […]
ACC Implosion Now Almost Complete
Only Ty Lawson’s toe (why won’t the announcers ever mention it?) and Tyler Hansbrough’s will stand in the way of complete conference humilation, after Villanova’s 77-54 curb stomping of Duke tonight. This game was not as close as the final score indicated. It was like the Magic Johnson-era Lakers against a 12-and-under team from the […]
2009 ACC Strength of Schedule
It’s time once again to look and see how unbalanced conference schedules affected the ACC season. This is our fourth year with a 16-game conference schedule in a 12-team conference. Our previous looks are listed below, but some of the tables no longer look quite as nice as they did when they were first done. […]
NCAAT Saturday Round of 32 Open Thread (Geaux Tigers!)
Great games late last night – in terms of excitement. Not so great for the ACC, as Wake and BC got demolished and Florida State (much like Clemson) played half asleep for most of the game, and paid the price. 3-4 in the First Round for the “mighty” ACC – with 2 of the 3 […]
NCAA Tournament Teams That Get All The Calls – Carolina, Connecticut and Chattanooga?
During our ACC Tournament viewing party, the subject came up of how much more North Carolina goes to the free throw line than their opponents. One of the excuses we had always heard was that their talent level discrepancy leads to the free throw discrepancy (and absolutely nothing to do with biased officiating…) This led us to wonder about a team like Memphis that utterly dominates Conference USA and is head and shoulders above the rest of the league, what sort of free throw advantage do they have?
Georgia Tech barely misses mark for ACC futility
The 2008-2009 version of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets finished ACC play with a 2-14 record after losing on a buzzer beater at Boston College on Saturday. The Yellow Jackets joined an ‘exclusive’ club of horrible teams in ACC history who lost 14 games in a season. Clemson was 0-14 in 1955 Georgia Tech was […]
Game Film Breakdown of Each of the 21 Turnovers Against GT
Credit and props to SFN reader TXPack for this breakdown of yesterday’s game at Georgia Tech. — Alpha Turnovers remain a big concern for the Wolfpack, especially headed into the critical final stretch of the season. Here is a breakdown of the 21 turnovers from yesterday in Atlanta: First 5 minutes of the 1st (6 […]
SMD: The Gap Grows Greater
SFN: Long time readers may remember some of our old entries (from 2005-2006) that we named “Perpetually Disappearing Pieâ€. We won’t link them here since our most recent server transition removed the key graphs from the entries. Today’s entry is a special submission from one of our long time contributors, SMD, and brings with it […]
Saturday’s Stat of the Day
A team ranked either #1 or #2 in the BCS standings has lost their final game 11 different times in the past 10 years! UPDATE: The trend continues today as #1 Alabama lost 31-20 to #4 Florida. Let’s use this entry as Saturday’s open entry to discuss the Wolfpack’s game with Davidson as well as […]
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