Statistically Speaking

With the NIT Final 4 beginning tonite, it begs the question: Does advancing in the NIT correlate with an NCAA tournament bid the following s...

March Madness is my favorite time of year. However, I picked Kansas to go to the Final 4, so my bracket is now dust in the wind. So I'd ...

It's finally here. March Madness is upon us. All data related to efficiency and tempo come from Ken Pomeroy's site . Atlanta Bracket...

Two years ago, an unheralded Atlantic 10 team stormed through an undefeated regular season, and had but one loss by the time the NCAA tourna...

With March Madness officially underway, I thought now would be a good time to test out an old theory that sportscasters occasionally toss ou...

Big South March Madness in February? Yep that's right. On Tuesday February 28th, the Big South Conference Tournament begins. 8 of the 9 ...

The USC mini-dynasty we have witnessed in the last 3 seasons is very similar to the Miami mini-dynasty that took place from 2000-2002. Both...

A few weeks ago I took a look at the cummulative Big 10 conference record of every team since 2000 to try and determine who had the biggest...

For the next few weeks NBC will be falling all over itself trying to convince you and I that the winter olympics are important and worth wat...

Personal Foul. I. Was Mr. Magoo officiating this game? I'll grant you that Roethlisberger may have been in on his TD run, and the interf...

Last Week: 1-1 Playoffs: 7-3 Super Bowl Pittsburgh Vs. Seattle Super Bowl XL pits a storied franchise against one that was not even in the l...

In case you missed it, Jerome Bettis is in fact from Detroit. With Bettis playing in what is believed to be his final game on Sunday, many s...

After spending a few days in Las Vegas, I thought it would be interesting to look at which BCS football teams were the 'luckiest' an...

It's good to see the Illinois General Assembly is hard at work. http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=4418956&nav=1sW7

After looking at the Minnesota Golden Gophers track record of schizo home and road performance the last few years, I decided to delve deeper...

Despite the fact that my beloved Panthers went down in defeat last night, I can take solace in the fact that they lost to a team coached by ...

Last Week: 3-1 Playoffs: 6-2 AFC Pittsburgh at Denver Pittsburgh, the AFC's 6th seed has won two road playoff games to advance to the AF...

Sometime ago, I posted an entry on NCAA teams that played in domes and their collective struggles away from home. I had been meaning to do ...

Kickers, like offensive linemen, usually toil in anonymity until they do something wrong. Most casual observers of football do not notice wh...