The only Albert Einstein I follow uses the stage name of Albert Brooks Ha. Learn something new everyday. Imagine showing up your first day of college and introducing yourself to your hallmates - “Hi, I’m Albert. Albert Einstein.” First person to tell you they can’t believe your parents named you th...

Here are the Massey ratings each year - pretty close. Massey's ratings show the A-10 champ teams a little higher than your list, with 2022 at 8th best, 2015 9th with a #49 ranking, and 2018 10th at #62. The 72-74 teams also fell in that #62 to #70 range. Here are my picks for the 10 best: Team Recor...

Maybe someone with more direct experience with big sports boosters (stan?) can correct me, but my years of reading about them and now NIL donors indicates that a lot of their motivation is pretty simple: they want to be chatting with their pals and say "I gave $1 million so that Jimmy Joe would play...

I was fortunate enough to sit behind the Arkansas bench when a very good Razorback team was playing in the NCAA first rounds. Nolan Richardson had a meltdown during a time-out when Arkansas was too unselfish - turning down open looks and over passing in hopes of a better shot. He made his point, em...

If you want to know what they are doing that Davidson is not, I can show you most of it: Non-Conf App 10-3, SOS 170 WCU 11-2, SOS 186 Charleston 9-4, SOS 213 Davidson 10-3, SOS 160 Total SOS App 207 WCU 184 Charleston 238 Davidson 99 OOC everyone's in the same neighborhood. In conference, our road g...

Historically, the shooting 35% from 3 would be considered an off year for Davidson. If nothing about this year's team changes except that, their kenpom rating is #2 in the A-10 instead of #10. Making 3s in games is a learnable skill, unlike height or arm length. If our guys spend an hour a day worki...

Reed shoots 80% on FTs - he has good shooting form and a good eye. It is very possible that if he spends an hour a day working on making 3s a part of his game that he wants to use, he could be better than Jake Cohen or Luka Brajkovic, given how much he's improved his game going to the basket this ye...

2) they do not have a single player capable of taking a jumper off the dribble. ....thoughts? I think Bobby has that ability. I agree. Once Durkin became a starter his usage and effectiveness actually declined. It seems like he may view himself as a third or fourth option when he's on the floor wit...

I don’t think anyone benefits from me being critical of the Cats, but yes I was implying that local knowledge of the Cats’ performance in close games might suggest a betting strategy

Numbers. Most rating algorithms like Massey or Kenpom use comparative scores and link all the games together to factor in strength of opponents. KP, for example, shows DC with a 58% chance against Loyola, 68-66, very close to Massey. Most oddsmakers use very similar algorithms. The Massey prediction...

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-men/d1/ncaa-mens-basketball-net-rankings Dayton 16 Davidson 115 SLU 234 Our 2 best wins are 82 Maryland and 95 UNCC. Niners have lost 3 straight, so i imagine that their NET is dropping. A chance to get right against Rice and @ ECU to finish the regular seas...

I know Dayton has been ranked a lot and their bracketology has been good, but 3rd in the A-10 with 4 conference losses? They might have to win the tournament to get in.

Sure, if he'd wanted to be here. Des was dissatisfied with his playing time when Grant and he were fighting for minutes. We signed Loughnane, Brizzi, and Durkin. Grant left to go to a place he could start and play 30+ minutes a game. Given that last year Des was starting and playing 30 minutes a ga...

You did. The same games are here, but you can see from the title why you didn't find it on the topic list.

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Kenpom's main measure is points per possession. The 61st ranking I referred to (59th now!) is adjusted for the offensive efficiency of our opponents, but is not that much different from the raw rating. He is showing the Cats at 1.006 points allowed per possession, which is 75th in the country. On of...