In this space we’ve talked about the college basketball blowout. There’s no real numeric threshold for determining when a game between two schools becomes a waste of time for both, but there are no on-court gains when one team defeats another by 94 points. No one wins those games. Not … Read more
The college basketball blowout — especially during November and December when tuneup games and scrimmages are common and teams of clearly different talent levels find themselves on the same court — is fairly common. Heck, even perennial powerhouse Kentucky lost by 34 points against Duke on November 6th. Teams from … Read more
We know all about the college basketball powerhouses like Duke, Kentucky, Kansas, North Carolina, etc., the NCAA Division 1 schools we’ve been watching on television and hearing about for years, along with the dozens of NBA players who once wore those school’s colors, but there are hundreds of other schools in … Read more
At the end of the 2016-17 NCAA College Basketball season, there were 351 member schools (translation: about 200 too many) with Division 1 classification. Beginning with the 2018-19 season, two more schools will be joining: California Baptist University and the University of North Alabama. With so many schools within one … Read more
