Pitt +3 at Utah
Southern Miss at South Carolina over 46.5
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Monday, April 5, 2010
Ranking the Conferences: 2010 NCAA Tournament
I love how fans of different conferences are always trying to figure out which conference is "best". I do it myself. So now that the NCAA Tournament is done for the year I thought I would share with everyone the scoring system I developed to determine which conferences performed the "best" during this year's tourney.
I developed this simple scoring system before the tournament started and had fun keeping track of the points as teams got knocked out in each round. I feel like it is a fair scoring system and when you look at the final rankings it is hard to argue with them.
I decided that teams would earn points for their conference when they LOST instead of when they won (minus the champion). Here is how is worked:
1st round loss: -3 points (Conferences should be penalized for having 1st round losers)
2nd round loss: 0 points
Sweet 16 loss: +3 points
Elite 8 loss: +6 points
Final 4 loss: +9
Championship game loss: +12
Win it all: +15
Conference Rankings:
1. Big 10 +12 points (-3 Minnesota, 0 Wisconsin, +3 OSU, +3 Purdue, +9 Mich State)
1b. Horizon +12 points (Butler)
3. ACC +9 (-3 Clemson, -3 FSU, 0 Wake, 0 Ga. Tech, 0 Maryland, +15 Duke)
4. SEC +6 (-3 Vandy, -3 Florida, +6 Kentucky, +6 Tennessee)
4b. Big 12 +6 (-3 Texas, -3 Ok State, 0 Kansas, 0 Mizzou, 0 Texas A&M, +6 KSU, +6 Baylor)
6. Pac 10, MVC, Ivy League, WCC all had +3
All other conferences had zero points or less
The Big 10 clearly made the most of the 5 tourney invites, putting 3 teams in the Sweet 16 and one in the Final Four.
I put the SEC over the Big 12 as they did not make the most of 7 tourney invites to the SEC's four.
Despite producing this year's National Champion, the ACC was pretty pathetic and overrated otherwise, with only Duke advancing past the 1st weekend.
Other scores of note:
a. The Big East finished with a total of zero points. A pretty poor showing for a conference that most people felt was the deepest this year.
b. The Mountain West Conference (4 teams), Conference USA (2 teams), and the WAC (2 teams) all finished with -6 points. Good luck getting multiple teams into next year's field.
c. The A10 also finished in the negative points (-3) even though they had 3 teams in the tourney.
I developed this simple scoring system before the tournament started and had fun keeping track of the points as teams got knocked out in each round. I feel like it is a fair scoring system and when you look at the final rankings it is hard to argue with them.
I decided that teams would earn points for their conference when they LOST instead of when they won (minus the champion). Here is how is worked:
1st round loss: -3 points (Conferences should be penalized for having 1st round losers)
2nd round loss: 0 points
Sweet 16 loss: +3 points
Elite 8 loss: +6 points
Final 4 loss: +9
Championship game loss: +12
Win it all: +15
Conference Rankings:
1. Big 10 +12 points (-3 Minnesota, 0 Wisconsin, +3 OSU, +3 Purdue, +9 Mich State)
1b. Horizon +12 points (Butler)
3. ACC +9 (-3 Clemson, -3 FSU, 0 Wake, 0 Ga. Tech, 0 Maryland, +15 Duke)
4. SEC +6 (-3 Vandy, -3 Florida, +6 Kentucky, +6 Tennessee)
4b. Big 12 +6 (-3 Texas, -3 Ok State, 0 Kansas, 0 Mizzou, 0 Texas A&M, +6 KSU, +6 Baylor)
6. Pac 10, MVC, Ivy League, WCC all had +3
All other conferences had zero points or less
The Big 10 clearly made the most of the 5 tourney invites, putting 3 teams in the Sweet 16 and one in the Final Four.
I put the SEC over the Big 12 as they did not make the most of 7 tourney invites to the SEC's four.
Despite producing this year's National Champion, the ACC was pretty pathetic and overrated otherwise, with only Duke advancing past the 1st weekend.
Other scores of note:
a. The Big East finished with a total of zero points. A pretty poor showing for a conference that most people felt was the deepest this year.
b. The Mountain West Conference (4 teams), Conference USA (2 teams), and the WAC (2 teams) all finished with -6 points. Good luck getting multiple teams into next year's field.
c. The A10 also finished in the negative points (-3) even though they had 3 teams in the tourney.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
NCAA Hoops - Stephen Curry of Davidson
Most of you probably watched Cinderella dance through the tournament last year to the Elite 8. Undoubtedly you witnessed Stephen Curry's magical run with Davidson as it was one of the stories of the tournament.
The son of former Charlotte Hornets shooting guru Dell Curry, Stephen Curry chose to stay in school instead of parlaying his magic into an NBA contract. While Davidson is a small school, they have adjusted their non-conference schedule to play many of the big boys. There is however, one major difference in the team this year. They lost their starting, senior point guard from last year. The unsung hero who ran the show and got Curry so many good looks. I wondered how he would fair without the point guard....until Tuesday night.
Davidson took on a ranked Oklahoma team on the road...maybe some of you watched it. In a hostile environment, Steph Curry had 20 points already with 6 minutes to go in the first half and had to go to the bench with 3 fouls. Oklahoma was up by as many as 20 points in the second half, but Davidson refused to go away......eventually losing by 4. Curry poured in 44 points, ran the point, and was double teamed most of the night. The kid is crazy good.
He is not the biggest guy on the court, he does not have exceptional strength or height, but his basketball IQ is insane. One mistake by a defender is a seemingly guaranteed bucket for Curry. He makes you pay.
I'm hoping to see Davidson more on TV this year because of Stephen Curry.....the next time they are on....don't change the channel...no matter who they are playing......I'm not sure how he will do in the NBA, but he definitely makes college hoops fun...he may not do something exceptional every night, but after watching him play, it is going to happen more often than not.
- ChrisB
The son of former Charlotte Hornets shooting guru Dell Curry, Stephen Curry chose to stay in school instead of parlaying his magic into an NBA contract. While Davidson is a small school, they have adjusted their non-conference schedule to play many of the big boys. There is however, one major difference in the team this year. They lost their starting, senior point guard from last year. The unsung hero who ran the show and got Curry so many good looks. I wondered how he would fair without the point guard....until Tuesday night.
Davidson took on a ranked Oklahoma team on the road...maybe some of you watched it. In a hostile environment, Steph Curry had 20 points already with 6 minutes to go in the first half and had to go to the bench with 3 fouls. Oklahoma was up by as many as 20 points in the second half, but Davidson refused to go away......eventually losing by 4. Curry poured in 44 points, ran the point, and was double teamed most of the night. The kid is crazy good.
He is not the biggest guy on the court, he does not have exceptional strength or height, but his basketball IQ is insane. One mistake by a defender is a seemingly guaranteed bucket for Curry. He makes you pay.
I'm hoping to see Davidson more on TV this year because of Stephen Curry.....the next time they are on....don't change the channel...no matter who they are playing......I'm not sure how he will do in the NBA, but he definitely makes college hoops fun...he may not do something exceptional every night, but after watching him play, it is going to happen more often than not.
- ChrisB
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