Author: Chris Ford
NEC, Ohio Valley & America East Conference Championship Preview
Editor note: This continues a series of conference tournament previews for the worst conferences in college basketball. Every day we will preview the conference tournaments for the non “Power” conferences that will begin on that day. Today we have the Northeast Conference, the Ohio Valley, and the America East. With apologies to the former USSR, here is the…
Big Ice Report: Your International Hockey Roundup, Week of 2/29
Welcome to your premier roundup of varying minor hockey leagues that tend not to get the media attention globally, where we will try to keep you informed of what’s happening in hockey worldwide. Each week, a contributor from Reddit’s r/hockey will give a rundown of the past week’s action in their particular league, along with…
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 17: The Highs and Lows
As we get closer to Conference and NCAA Tournament time, fan interest is starting to gain even more momentum. Attendance this week was up 4% with average attendance north of 5,000 for the first time this season. In addition, fewer games were played with fewer than 1,000 in attendance this week: Number of games drawing…
Atlantic Sun and Patriot League 2016 Crappy Conference Championship Preview
Editor note: This begins a series of conference tournament previews for the worst conferences in college basketball. Every day we will preview the conference tournaments for the non “Power” conferences. We begin today with the two conference tournaments that begin on Tuesday, March 1, the Atlantic Sun and the Patriot League. With apologies to the former USSR,…
2016 College Basketball Conference Tournaments: Your Full Rundown of Dates and Places
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Conference tournaments start on March 1, and if you’re a hardcore NCAA Basketball Fan , you’re going to be wondering who is playing when, and who will get the prestigious 16 seeds this year. We’ll talk more about that next week, but for now, here’s an overview of the dates, venues, and TV options…
The Big Ice Report: Your Weekly r/hockey European Hockey League Update
Editor note: This is the first of a series of weekly updates on varying European hockey leagues and North American leagues that don’t get much coverage in the media put together by some of the members of Reddit’s r/hockey subreddit. Want to contribute? Contact us, and tell us what league you’re interested in writing about. …
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 16: The Winners and Losers
Attendance, for the most part, has steadied out through February, as school is in session, and weather has been fairly consistent, preventing low attendances across college basketball. This week, the numbers were up around 3% over last week, and the lowest attended game still had over 300 people, which should drop off as we get…
Tuesday’s Minnesota vs Rutgers Game Will Still Be Historically Bad Basketball
Okay, so Minnesota ruined it. Everyone had been looking forward to seeing two 0-14 (in conference) teams play one another on Tuesday. If that had happened, and the rest of the season played out with the bottom two teams in the conference having a combined 2 wins (against each other), it would’ve been the first…
Point Distribution by Conference in NCAA Basketball, or “How Terrible the SWAC is in One Graph”
With the new shot clock rules in the NCAA this season, as expected, scoring has increased dramatically. Everyone knows that. Here are the charts that show it: Similar in distribution, but with a shift of about 10-12%. Given that the shot clock was reduced by 14%, this is what we’d expect. There’s no…
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 15: The Highs and Lows
As we inch closer and closer to March, the haves and have-nots begin to separate, and we start to see attendance diverge. This week, as in last week, had quite a few games below 1,000 in attendance, but at the top, quite a few high attendance games have floated the average attendance up almost 6%…
Wednesday Web Roundup for February 9, 2016
Another week, another Wednesday Web Roundup. We hope you’ve recovered from your Super Bowl hangovers. First this week, some light reading on everybody’s favorite discussion: College conference realignment. Apparently, the Big XII is thinking about, well, becoming XII again, up from their current X. Rumor has it that BYU, Cincinnati, UConn, or the directional…
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 14: The Best and Worst of the Week
Numbers have somewhat bounced back this week after the winter storm that shook the east coast a couple of weeks ago, overall average attendance is slightly up this week. Where the attendance changes are mostly seen are on the bottom of the list, however, as fewer teams drew sub 1000 compared to last week (only 16 this week,…