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Georgia Bulldogs v. Washington Huskies: The Haphazard Ill-Informed NCAA Basketball Tournament Preview
Dance anyone? Mark Fox (March 13, 2011) So, what do you want to know about the Georgia Bulldogs’ first round NCAA Tournament opponent, the Washington Huskies? You know, other than the fact that they also have an SB Nation weblog with the word "Dawg" in the title? (No, they don’t pronounce "Dawg"...
Turnovers, Possessions, And The Kansas Jayhawks
In this year's College Basketball Prospectus, John Gasaway wrote an article titled "The Incredible Vanishing Turnover" that discussed a recent trend noticed in college basketball; turnover rates have slowly declined over the last few years. In 2006, the average for BCS conference teams was about...
Throwing The Luck Flag
One of the immutable truths of fandom is that as soon as somebody starts citing "luck" as a reason that a certain team beat another team, there is sufficient childish logic being applied that you can ignore the rest of what this person has to say. It's the Godwin's Law of sports. "Well then they...
Instantaneous Ill-Informed Roundball Wrapup: Vanderbilt Commodores 96, Georgia Bulldogs 94
This is going to be just about as truly instantaneous and ill-informed a roundball wrapup as you have ever seen around these parts. The game went to overtime, and, as you know if you followed the open comment thread, I had a Chick-fil-A milkshake with supper and I am now very much in the throes of...
Monday Night Dawg Bites: Who Dat Say Saints Make Him Wanna Puke? Edition
The Monday following Super Bowl Sunday is like an aluminum bat to the face, and trebly so if the team you (nominally) supported the day before lost. Granted, there is no outcome of any NFL game I could find truly fortunate or unfortunate---it’s the NFL; it’s basically just a waste of six or eight...
Can't Handle the Pressure: Florida 77, Michigan State 74
In two years of blogging about this basketball team, I'm pretty sure I've never said anything like this: This loss is on Tom Izzo. When an unranked opponent shoots 5-24 from 3-point range, you simply have to find a way to win. And it's not like we didn't know Billy Donovan was going to throw the...
Missed Opportunities
OK, I'll admit it. I've been griping about the officials a bit a lot. While it's unquestionable that 60 fouls is way too much for a college basketball game (that's 1.5 fouls every minute, or about 0.875 fouls per shot clock [35 seconds]), we lost the game because we didn't play up to our potential....
Utes blow big halftime lead, lose to Rebels
<!-- BEGIN WIDGET --> Final - 1.24.2009 1 2 Total Utah Utes 38 27 65 UNLV Runnin Rebels 30 45 75 Complete Coverage > <!-- END WIDGET --> Utah entered Saturday's contest a half game out of the top spot and a victory away from possibly...
A most startling statistic
I'm going to avoid the lazy "can we finally retire [insert statistic whose predictive merit doesn't apply to my favorite team/player] now, please?" technique that's popular among myopic opinioneers like Bill Simmons, but it's hard not to be alarmed at Iowa's turnover margin this season. No, it's...
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