Category: College Basketball
Our First NCAA Basketball Computer Rankings Of The Year Are Out!
It’s that time of the year again, college basketball season. In case you weren’t following AMSTS’ rankings last year, we finished the season second in correlation to consensus on Massey Ratings, so you know that our ratings are decently unbiased. But a new season always presents new challenges, so without further ado, view all 351…
NCAA Basketball Weeks 1-3 Attendance In Review: Two Sub-100 Games Already!
The college basketball season has begun, and with it brings plenty of random tournaments nationwide. Some of these, like the Maui Invitational, bring the best teams together and have no problem selling out. Others, well… we’ll get to those. Let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 89 (Season total: 89) Here…
Can Free Throw % Tell Us How Good a Basketball League Is?
Living in Germany, my options for live, high-caliber sports are limited, if I don’t want to sit outside in 35 degree rainy weather and watch soccer. As such, over the past year and a half I’ve tried to “make it work” with hockey and basketball. With hockey, the larger ice helps the game feel more…
Eurobracket Final Four update
We’re down to four teams in the NCAA tournament, but the question that still remains is who will win the Eurobracket. Before we get into that, let me just say that my largely chalk bracket got destroyed. At this point I’m sitting 1 point ahead of Slavo, and if UNC makes the Championship, I…
Best and Worst of the NCAA Basketball 2015-16 Regular Season: All 351 Teams!
It’s that time of the year again. The college basketball regular season has ended, bringing us the most exciting tournament in all of sports. But before they cut down the nets and show One Shining Moment, let’s take a look at who accomplished what in the regular season this year. In the spirit of the statistical…
Euro Bracket – Post Round One Update
Round one is in the books and nobody saw that coming. MTSU over Michigan State, Yale over Baylor, and OH YEAH LITTLE ROCK OVER PURDUE WHICH 44% OF MY POOL PREDICTED. I can say with confidence that outside of Arkansas, I have the highest penetration of Little Rock Trojans fans in the world (at least…
Can You Beat Europeans in a Bracket Challenge? Your 2016 Eurobracket Is Here
So for those who aren’t avid AMSTS readers, I work in Berlin. This is despite my lack of German language skills and complete unwillingness to become culturally aware of my surroundings. In short: I am a TRUE AMERICAN. And as a TRUE AMERICAN, I take the opportunity to annually subject my employees to participating in…
How Long Is The Road to the Final Four For All 68 Teams?
We’ve heard it before: The Road to the Final Four is long and painful. But exactly how long is it? For some of the teams, it seems like they always get opening round games right down the road. For the rest of us, it seems like our team has to cross nine time zones to…
NCAA Conference Tournament Attendance: The embarrassing lows
It’s finally tournament time, but in the last week of the season we get to pile everyone on a bus, drive to the nearest major metropolitan area and watch the teams battle it out in their respective conference tournaments. Lots of fans were excited, but one pair of fans seemingly less so. Which brings us…
Big West, Sun Belt, & WAC Crappy Conference Championship Preview
Editor note: This is our last day in a series of conference tournament previews for the worst conferences in college basketball. Today we have the Big West, the Sun Belt, and the WAC. Want to see the American Athletic Preview? You’re on the wrong site for previews of good basketball, might we suggest ESPN? And now,…
Southland and Mountain West Crappy 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 Southland and Mountain West. Want conference tournament previews for the A-10, SEC, Big Ten, Pac 12, Big…
NCAA Basketball Attendance, Week 18: The Highest and Lowest Attended Games
It’s the last week of the regular season this year in college basketball, so naturally attendance is up as varying schools host their senior night festivities. As such, attendance at the big schools tends to rise while those at the bottom never see too much of a bump, as this week we have the same…