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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 15, 2009 20:21:55 GMT -5
1. Florida 8. Jacksonville 4. Miami 5. Providence (@providence) 3. Niagara 6. Rhode Island 2. Penn State 7. George Mason
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 15, 2009 20:16:07 GMT -5
1. Creighton 8. Bowling Green 4. Kentucky 5. UNLV 3. New Mexico 6. Nebraska 2. Notre Dame 7. UAB
How the HECK does Notre Dame get a 2 seed and us a 6? Gotta believe that's arena-related.
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 15, 2009 20:11:54 GMT -5
1. Auburn 8. UT-Martin 4. Tulsa 5. Northwestern 3. Baylor 6. Georgetown (WEDNESDAY, 9 PM ET, ESPN 2) 2. Virginia Tech 7. Duquesne
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 15, 2009 20:04:45 GMT -5
Posting brackets as they're finished announcing them: 1 San Diego State 8 Weber State 4 Kansas State 5 Illinois State 3 South Carolina 6 Davidson 2 Saint Mary's 7 Washington State
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 13, 2009 9:20:31 GMT -5
Wow, I haven't been this disappointed in a Hoya editorial since I was on the Hilltop and got into an argument with my roommate about which of us was quoted as having the "bad" view in a column written by a friend only to find out the columnist had made up the exact quote because "it sounded like something you two would say."
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 13, 2009 9:11:17 GMT -5
Updated log5 odds: Louisville 63.77% 35.35% Villanova 36.23% 15.06% West Va. 60.28% 32.34% Syracuse 39.72% 17.26% Bonus fun facts: last night's game was 119 possessions, per KenPom. Our "longest" game this year, and of the KenPom era (starting in 2003-04), was 81 possessions against Memphis. The NDSU-SFA 3OT game this year was 95 possessions. VMI has played 3 116 possession games, 2 last year and 1 in 2007, albeit against non-DivI teams. None of those 116 possession games have gone to overtime.
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 13, 2009 0:20:42 GMT -5
C'mon, call Price for an intentional, he just wanted to sit down on the bench and end the insanity!
Cuse finally misses an FT and UConn gets 5 in a row. C'mon, 7!
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 13, 2009 0:09:32 GMT -5
Huskies are subbing-first non-fouling out sub since when, first OT?
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 13, 2009 0:04:55 GMT -5
7, Cincinnati-Bradley in 1981, per random google search.
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 12, 2009 23:50:14 GMT -5
It would've been SO great if they called Boeheim for the T for stepping on the court before time ran out on the 4th OT. Not that UConn would've hit a game-winning FT, but it still would've been great.
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 12, 2009 23:39:15 GMT -5
If UConn was really that good, they would've done a better job of getting a good shot after that Rautins 3. They had 11 seconds.
Biggest beneficiary of all this: West Virginia. Huggy may be slime, but he's a heck of a coach and should be able to take advantage of playing a team that played an extra 20 minutes the night before.
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 12, 2009 22:41:47 GMT -5
Nice job by Ongeneat to pull Thabeet's arm down and free the ball so Walker could grab the ball and get the weakside layup.
This shot by Devenpunk better not count.
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 12, 2009 9:29:10 GMT -5
Updated log5 odds: Providence 13.47% 2.86% 0.36% Louisville 86.53% 54.86% 25.79% Marquette 48.04% 19.88% 6.60% Villanova 51.96% 22.40% 7.82% West Va. 40.32% 18.62% 10.04% Pitt 59.68% 33.21% 20.97% Syracuse 31.66% 11.22% 6.13% UConn 68.34% 36.95% 23.38% The seeds holding on Day 2 worsened the odds for all the double-bye teams, but not by that much. Biggest beneficiary so far is Marquette, whose odds have increased about 4%.
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 11, 2009 20:07:26 GMT -5
Classic ESPN moment there in the post-game interview Allen Hopkins: "Coach, do what you expect in the game against Louisville tomorrow?" Huggy Bear: "Well, I think we're playing Pitt, not Louisville."
Seriously, 1 piece of information you have to have to do the interview (you can just call him "Coach"), and you can't even get that right?
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 11, 2009 9:53:59 GMT -5
Per CO's request on Hoya Prospectus, log5 odds for the rest of the tourney. Posted here instead of there because I don't blog from work: DePaul 15.20% 0.42% 0.02% 0.00% Providence 84.80% 11.61% 2.76% 0.35% Louisville 100.00% 87.97% 57.69% 27.02% St Johns 16.12% 2.07% 0.24% 0.02% Marquette 83.88% 36.42% 13.29% 3.85% Villanova 100.00% 61.51% 26.00% 8.98% Notre Dame 27.57% 5.49% 1.35% 0.42% West Va. 72.43% 28.63% 12.85% 6.82% Pitt 100.00% 65.88% 36.25% 22.85% Seton Hall 22.04% 2.45% 0.34% 0.07% Syracuse 77.96% 23.89% 8.54% 4.78% UConn 100.00% 73.66% 40.67% 25.85%
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 10, 2009 22:14:05 GMT -5
Quick tempo-free box notes: --Once again, a team that sucks at free throw shooting (64.6%, bottom 50) shoots way over their head against the Hoyas (24-29, 82.8%). That's your MOV right there. -- Block party! 4 for Greg, 3 for Julian, 2 for Henry. SJU was credited with 1.--Missing 3's was not a surprise. Missing 2's was. Hoyas were 9th in the country at 54.6%, but were only 15-34, 44.1%, today. Greg 4-10, DaJuan 2-5, Austin 2-6. This was primarily a first half problem (9-23, 39.1%), not a second half one (6-11, 54.5%). -- SJU had 9 more FGA in the second half than did the Hoyas. I'd love to see rebounding and turnover numbers by half. Half those stats can be attributed to one man. The St. John's guy (Thomas or Evans or whatever) who got his shot blocked about 7 times and collected the rebounds off those blocks to pad his stats. And the extra FGA's from those rebounds off getting his blocked shots. Classisc Jayson Williams, top rebounder who got a lot of offensive rebounds because he was a horrible rebounder. Ah, thanks. I missed the first 19:30 of the second half thanks to an ill-timed rescheduled meeting and didn't bother wading through the 10 pages of game thread I missed. 1st and 2nd half boxes now up on the school site make this a little clearer-7 of 9 blocks in 2H, SJU OR% jumps from 17% to 47%. One thing I didn't point out earlier-8 assists on 18 made baskets is another number below the season average and not what you want from the offense.
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 10, 2009 21:12:25 GMT -5
I dont remember that the last few years, I know this year it was mostly TO's that killed us That's the really funny thing about this year, and something I'll be writing about once the year is over and I stop wanting to throw things at the wall. The previous years of the JT3 era, this was absolutely true-turnover percentage was, after shooting percentage, strongly correlated to and the biggest factor in offensive efficiency. This year, though, turnover rate was much less connected to offensive efficiency-weaker in terms of both correlation and effect.
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 10, 2009 20:55:27 GMT -5
Congrats to Greg. Next year, POY?
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 10, 2009 19:03:14 GMT -5
Quick tempo-free box notes: --Once again, a team that sucks at free throw shooting (64.6%, bottom 50) shoots way over their head against the Hoyas (24-29, 82.8%). That's your MOV right there. --Block party! 4 for Greg, 3 for Julian, 2 for Henry. SJU was credited with 1. --Missing 3's was not a surprise. Missing 2's was. Hoyas were 9th in the country at 54.6%, but were only 15-34, 44.1%, today. Greg 4-10, DaJuan 2-5, Austin 2-6. This was primarily a first half problem (9-23, 39.1%), not a second half one (6-11, 54.5%). --SJU had 9 more FGA in the second half than did the Hoyas. I'd love to see rebounding and turnover numbers by half.
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 10, 2009 17:25:17 GMT -5
And on that note why does he refuse to play his best players for 33-35+ minutes a game? It bugs the hell out of me. He does. He's played the big players a lot, all year. Wright averages 33 minutes a game, Monroe 30, Summers 29 (and it'd be more without foul trouble), Freeman 29. Compare that to Memphis-Anderson and Dozier are the only guys who play that much. Carolina-Lawson and Ellington. Pitt-Fields and Young. Monroe played 4-5 minutes a game more than Blair. Duke-Scheyer, Singler and Henderson. Heck, compare it to last year-those 4 guys all played more than any single player did last year. JT3 played the guys a lot, probably too much. I think he started to recognize that a little partway through the year and tried to fix it, but had trouble because of the depth issue. Yes, there are teams that are successful playing not that many guys that much of the time. Few of them are that good, and even fewer of them are as young as our big four. There's a reason we had trouble playing hard for 40 minutes, and it's not because JT3 didn't play his best players.
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