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We’re just now coming out exam period for most schools, so it’s been a pretty thin week of games. Teams either barely played or played weak teams, worried that their players wouldn’t be at their best. Do you think Dave Leitao wishes he had followed this prescription and stayed home instead of taking his team…
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Last week, one of my readers (Professor Matt) sent me and then published a very interesting spreadsheet. He had calculated a set of temp-free statistics for all the ACC teams as of about a week ago. The gist of temp-free statistical analysis is that you can look at how efficient teams are on both offense…
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Sometimes I miss a story and report on it a bit late. In this case, I’m waaaay late. This happened last March, but I just heard about it. You are probably aware of the occasional practice of college coaches hiring the fathers of big-time recruits as “assistant coaches.” It’s shady, but it happens. The most…
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It’s been a while since I went through the ACC games, so I’ll be pretty brief on most of these. Wednesday, Nov. 22 Providence 73, BC 64 UVa 81, UNC Asheville 65 Gonzaga 82, UNC 74 UCLA 88, Ga. Tech 73 The first bad day of the ACC season, with three teams going down. The…
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And now for something completely different … Way back about three years ago when I started this site, my goal was to find an outlet for my sports passion. I didn’t have many kindred souls at work to have water-cooler chats with and I was bored with what I’d found online. There were (and are)…
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I’ve had NC State’s hiring of Boston College coach Tom O’Brien on my brain for a couple of days now. I’ve thought of tons of things I want to write about it, but I realize now that I’ll never get all of that typed out. Instead, I’ll just go through a few of my basic…
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Another year, another funny recruiting scandal out of Florida. This time, it’s University of Florida recruit Chris Rainey freely talking to a reporter about how folks around town give him free clothes and money. Poor kid had no idea what this reporter was about to do to his life. Good times.
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850 The Blog was reporting earlier today that things were heating up between Paul Johnson and NC State. Later, they updated it to say that now things were cooling and that maybe Tom O’Brien was leading the pack (get it?). The O’Brien thing strikes me as funny because despite having things rolling pretty nicely in…
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Considering his love of Duke, this is probably a bit ironic, but the guys at the Duke Basketball Report have done humanity a great service. They have posted tips on how to watch a college basketball game on ESPN with sound, but without Dick Vitale. The catch is that you have to have to have…
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I don’t know how I missed this story. I only heard about from my brother-in-law so Googled it to see what’s up. I can’t believe what I found. After UConn’s opening game of the season, against mighty Quinnipiac University, Jim Calhoun ranted to the press about how Quinnipiac had the gall to use a zone…