As we get ready to hit the conference tournament, we check in with the leader in college basketball statistics: Ken Pomeroy of Basketball Prospectus and kenpom.com (also on twitter: @kenpomeroy).
Using his up to date stats and log5 methodology, he has determined the probabilities of every MAAC Team to win the 2010 Citizens Bank MAAC Basketball [...]
Now that BracketBusters has been revealed and the lull of the slow Siena news week is almost at an end. Let’s take a look back at BracketBuster coverage. Matt takes a look, earlier today, at Fran McCaffery’s “coachspeak.” Ken Pomeroy added the games and the predictor says Butler is a favorite. As of Tuesday’s games, [...]
Pomeroy Ratings: Consistency (among NCAA Tournament teams)
5E Florida State 4th 14.0
9S Butler 6th 14.3
9M Siena 8th 15.4
8M Ohio State 309th 24.2
10W Maryland 314th 24.4
4S Gonzaga 317th 24.5
3W Missouri 320th 24.8
6M West Virginia 325th 25.2
14W Cornell 327th 25.5
Since Siena racked up the most lopsided 13-4 upset since Navy’s 23 point win over LSU in 1985, the expectations for Siena’s run this season have been well set up. This will be a series of articles leading up to Sunday on the potential opponents of the Saints; which mostly means we will try and [...]
New Coach. New Players. New Results.
After finishing 73-50 in four years at Marist, Matt Brady decided now was the time to move on. He chose his next challenge to be rehabilitating a team that won 13 games last year. Though his transition marks a great time for a fresh start with new head coach Chuck [...]
Year One: Rebuild.
Year Two: Be Inconsistently Consistent.
Year Three: Contention.
SSB: One of the teams I still think has been a real good dark horse these last 2 years has been Fairfield…
Pomeroy: I think that’s a reasonable goal for them, not that I would expect it of course. To challenge Siena they would have to significantly improve [...]
Here we have Ken Pomeroy writer for Basketball Prospectus. His first book, College Basketball Prospectus 2008-09, will hit bookstores on October 28th. Just look at the high praise from his blurb on Amazon:
Ken Pomeroy is routinely described on college hoop blogs as the Bill James of college basketball. Ken was a writer for ESPN and [...]