Tag: college basketball
WCC, MVC, MAAC, Big South 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 West Coast Conference, Missouri Valley, MAAC, and Big South. With apologies to the former USSR, here is the…
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…
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,…
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 2, 2016
2nd Edition of the Wednesday Web Roundup, and here’s what we have. First off, we have a simple hour and twenty minute Youtube video for you. What about, you ask? It’s just the highest scoring game of all time as Troy State defeated DeVry (yes, DeVry) 258-141. That’s even with a 45 second shot clock.…
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 13, The Best and the Worst
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,…
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 12: The Best and Worst
Numbers are down big this week, likely due to a major snowstorm that enveloped the east coast. That being said, this week has a first. A team making the list twice in the bottom 3 in attendance! This is almost as good as the US sweeping the podium at the Olympics. Almost. First off, a…
What is Home Court Advantage Worth in College Basketball?
As the 2015-16 College Basketball season passes its halfway point, it’s worth taking a look at the value of a home game. Various people have done it in the past, but none of it has been updated for 2015-16, and we’ll look at how best to do it. First off, we’ll take every game played…