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Virginia’s legitimacy was questioned during the 2014 ACC season. The Cavaliers are not doubted as much this year, but if they falter against Duke on Saturday, they certainly will be viewed with fresh skepticism.

When Discussing The Coach Of The Year In College Basketball, Please Use Two Categories

0 comments by on 3/2/2015

Next week, you (like us) will be so immersed in conference tournament brackets that there won’t be time to step back and reflect on the just-concluded college basketball regular season. We’re waiting for the March crescendo, so in the meantime, let’s gain perspective on the season that’s winding down. Keep this in mind: What happens […]

The Top 5 College Basketball Stories From Saturday, February 28

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It felt a little bit like March on the final day of February. We are now fully immersed in questions and debates pertaining to NCAA tournament selection, seeding and bracketing. The one-bid conferences are about to start their tournaments, with regular-season championships having been decided. There’s a lot of ground to cover in college basketball. […]

RPI Case Studies: Illinois And A Story Of Wrong Turns

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The first three examples in our series, “CSI: RPI,” have shown how an RPI can be inflated through savvy manipulation and the right touches of luck. We conclude our examination of RPI case studies with an example of how an RPI can remain low. It stands to reason that if an inflated RPI is the […]

RPI Case Studies: Arkansas Brings A Pork Flavor To The RPI’s Special Sauce

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Let’s not build the suspense in this episode of “CSI: RPI,” our continuing look at how the Ratings Percentage Index can so easily be manipulated and — in the process — overvalue a given team’s body of work. On February 25, the Arkansas Razorbacks owned an RPI of 16 following a win over Texas A&M. […]

Bubble Profile: Old Dominion Is The Most Fascinating Bubble Team You Know Nothing About

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Every college basketball season, there’s at least one team from either a mid-major conference or a “tweener” conference (a league downscaled to a much lower status by conference realignment) with a bubble resume that’s always inconvenient… but always the same. You know that team. It’s a team which, in non-conference play, makes the most of […]

RPI Case Studies: SMU And The Two Sides Of The Same Coin

0 comments by on 2/24/2015

In our overview of the RPI on Monday, we put forth the contention that the RPI must die. We now set about the task of offering case studies to more precisely show why this tool — while not the only one or even the primary one the Selection Committee uses — needs to be blown […]

Rife (with) Pronounced Inadequacies: We Need To Say “RIP” To The RPI

0 comments by on 2/23/2015

It’s beginning to be that time of year, sports fans. Selection Sunday’s just 20 days away. You’re going to see this acronym a lot over the next three weeks: RPI. The Ratings Percentage Index is not the only tool used by the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee, but it is one tool, and the […]

5 Teams That Drove Their Fans Insane This Season

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The realization should dawn on you by now: The college basketball regular season is almost over. This is the final week of regular-season play for many smaller (one-bid) conferences, and there are only two weeks left before the power conferences begin their tournaments. We’re only 20 days away from Selection Sunday, six days away from […]

The Top 5 College Basketball Stories From Saturday, February 21

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One of the slower and less compelling Saturdays of the college basketball season — almost certainly the last Saturday that will fail to excite the senses — still produced some significant developments. This was a Saturday on which the season seemed to take one big breath before the frenetic stretch run. What happened during this […]

One-And-One Often Means One-And-Done… But It Still Gets Overlooked

0 comments by on 2/19/2015

When a discussion on “ways to improve college basketball” develops, the first thing you’ll likely hear is that timeouts need to be reduced, guldarnit. After the timeout discussion runs its course, the next biggest topic is likely to be all the fouls at the end of a game, or if not that, the larger lamentation […]

Oliver Luck Is The Latest Example Of Why The NCAA Can’t Be Taken Seriously

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This is not going to take too long, everyone, but it does need to be documented and spelled out in a few sentences and several links you are encouraged to briefly check: Oliver Luck, formerly the athletic director at West Virginia University and a member of the College Football Playoff Selection Committee, recently took a […]

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