Sterling Gibbs eliminated Villanova with this last second shot and never skipped a beat in helping Seton Hall, and the Big East, provide big surprises this season. The seven high major all-conference teams are listed below, and the Big East’s
A couple of clicks on www.valueaddbasketball.com gives you the precise value of any player on any team on the screen above. The new and improved Value Add (click here for story on recent improvements) once again lets readers know exactly
Miami joins powers Duke and Kentucky as the only schools with more than two Top 100 players in the early Value Add rankings, which appear here first and then will be updated on the www.valueaddbasketball.com list of all 4,000 players.
Links to Sports Illustrated, ESPN, NBC Sports and Fox Sports show wide praise for the of www.valueaddbasketball.com database to pinpoint a player’s value, but today announces major improvements to answer valid criticisms that have circulated at the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. You can say the same about
AUBURN – The SEC dominance that started with Florida’s destruction of Ohio State seven years ago ended today, as the ACC and Pac-12 capped off great seasons that put them ahead of the SEC in the final conference standings. Yes,
The following is an alphabetical list of all 351 college teams with their conference, current rating at www.kenpom.com, and then a grade of 0-10 on if they have lived up to their expectations so far. Most teams are doing about
Harvard boosts the Ivy League, while Wichita State (Missouri Valley) and Gonzaga (West Coast) are near the top of the basketball world as we rank those conferences against the traditionally powerful Pac-12 and SEC in the countdown of the best
Thanksgiving came a day early for Fox Sports 1 when the Big East moved up to fourth in the ranking of conferences with a stunning trio of upsets. After Fox Sports 1 made a half-billion dollar investment in the Big
MILWAUKEE – College basketball kicks off with 150 games today, including both teams from here in Milwaukee being involved in coaching debuts. Long-time Duke head assistant Steve Wojciechowski takes over Marquette against Tennessee-Martin, while Milwaukee visits their old coach Bruce
If these projections all played out, the ACC would go 7-0 in the opening round of March Madness, and then have five Sweet 16 teams, and half of the Elite 8 and Final Four. NBC Sports guru Rob Dauster asks
After three straight Sweet 16s, Marquette collapsed and the conference did not have a single Sweet 16 team last season. Longtime Duke assistant Steve Wojciechowski already has a top-five recruit in a quest to bring MU back, but Villanova or
Despite being the first to spot Wisconsin’s Frank Kaminsky as an All-American and touting the Big Ten as the top conference last year, we do have the Badgers a little lower at 10th and in a tough battle with eight
The college basketball season started Friday with 150 Division 1 games. The following are the Value Add Projections for the top 500 players this season. The top few players were revealed by Fox Sports on August 25, but there have
The Atlantic 10 attempts to establish itself among the traditional Power Conferences, but will need a couple of other teams to step up besides an incredible looking VCU. Briante Weber ranks as the best defender in the country. The team
Auburn is projected to improve from 138th to 56th in the wake of Bruce Pearl’s arrival on campus and signing of players who can play now. Kentucky nudges out Kansas for No. 1 in the country, but will again be
Kansas is within a point of Kentucky, but they will lose some conference games with three other top 12 teams and seven that seem like NCAA teams. Here are the team rankings and top-20 players based on www.valueaddbasketball.com: Rankings of
SMU’s Markus Kennedy projects as the top player in the conference, but a recent report of him being lost for the Fall due to academic issues gives UConn and Memphis a chance for a headstart. The team rankings and top
Gonzaga and Wichita State are loaded, and lead six teams that are good enough for at-large bids even though they are not in one of the top eight conferences. Georgia State is the potential huge surprise. Here are the top
Though Delon Wright rates as our top player, his Utah team does not compare to Arizona, which has an unreal five of the top 82 players in the country. Here are the team rankings and top-20 players based on www.valueaddbasketball.com.
College football took its first shot at selecting teams for a playoff Tuesday, and I believe they should follow a couple of key guidelines from the March Madness selection criteria. Pick teams that have proven they can beat good teams
ESPN’s Rod Gilmore played at Stanford and earned a law degree at Cal–and he is the one guy the selection committee should completely ignore when they announce their first college playoff seeds Tuesday. Gilmore seems to be one of those
The Pythagorean Ratings do not give Notre Dame high marks for barely surviving a UNC upset, plunging the Irish to a 17-point (39-22) underdog against Florida State Saturday in the marque game on the schedule below. Others excuse the Irish
The South has superior football for three reasons–obesity, poverty, and pride–Colin Cowherd told his national ESPN Radio audience on Wednesday. He referred to a piece this week in the Huffington Post, “How can two tiny states dominate in college football?,”
Florida State’s huge lead in the Pythagorean Ratings has shrunk to a fraction of a point against Mississippi and Mississippi State. But the Seminoles held onto No. 1 in these rankings. Below each team is listed in order from 1st
After the release of last week’s Pythagorean Ratings critics jumped on how Michigan could be ranked so high (#71) and Penn State could be ranked so low (#79). Luckily the two teams that were the focus on the criticism happened
