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A nearly bloodless revolution

One of the things I like about Gemini is that, deep down, it's just as lazy as I am

I object to NCAA tourney expansion on biblical grounds

Just pretend one of the Indianas is Indiana State

ha, whoops

Can't wait for a Final Four like

Texas/Indiana
Xavier/Wake Forest
Indiana/Boise St.
North Carolina/SMU

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@bfsesq.bsky.social WCCO’s got it

ACC to reduce number of games in men's basketball conference schedule from 20 to 18 after multiple down years The conference is coming off a historically bad season by its standards and is looking to beef up its nonconference performance

Story + details on the ACC's schedule overhaul, including the new format for how many home-and-homes the league will deploy moving forward.

That’s what it’s all aboot

A four-pack of Bob Uecker-branded Usinger’s hot dogs

“Take and eat; this is my body.” - The Ueckarist

Not sure why we need several minutes for this stuff.

Maybe the most obvious F1 I’ve ever seen?

It’s part of the efficiency numbers but the game by game results are the last column on the schedule portion of the team pages

One of the big differ nice is that my ol model incorporates an average lead/deficit (game control) component.

Hepburn and Storr out in the first round. You truly hate to see it.

Agree that ironies and hypocrisies abound, and get that mid-majors have been regularly excluded on Quad 1 grounds—but for the future, leaving quadramania behind is best for all and WAB is the way

But when you question *why* people think those 13 games matter so much more than than the other 20, the answer you (often) get is that they are the kind of games played in the tourney. And the reason *that* matters, supposedly, is that they indicate how a team will perform in those games

Yeah. This graphic from @heycg.bsky.social reflects that -- note how Xavier's 1-9 Quad 1 record is actually substantially worse than UNC's 1-12, in WAB.

So if UNC performs well against actual tourney teams, it undermines this argument. The fact is, looking at records in a subset games is not the best way to evaluate how good is. It's best to look at all the games, and that's true whether you're judging resumé or quality.

I somewhat disagree that nothing UNC does in the tournament can justify their inclusion. The flaw in UNC's resumé is their 1-12 record in Quad 1. When I ask why that is so much more important than sterling record in other games, the answer is that it proves they can't beat tourney quality teams.

This one might be getting out of hand.

Replace the WAB-pilled committee with WAB Congratulations to the Tritons on their first-ever NCAA tournament. Best wishes as well to fellow first-timers Omaha and SIUE. Special note of welcome to Saint Francis, which unlike all of the abov…

Happy Selection Monday! Go to KenPom and grab the top six. Don't sweat "top 20 for both offensive and defensive efficiency" or any such overly intricate pretensions.

Also now that the committee speaks WAB we no longer need a committee. How Hegelian.

johngasaway.com/2025/03/17/r...

Left a bit more "uncertainty" in the TourneyCast simulations this year and the final run yesterday morning left room for some of the madness that came. (The downside was that the model was way under-confident about 1-seeds, but still had the right ones at the top)

West Virginia got hosed A bad evaluation leads to worse connotations

Forget UNC. The committee's off-base evaluation of West Virginia is the real disaster. (Free for everyone.)

www.eamonnbrennan.com/p/west-virgi...

With the exception of Xavier over WVU, the field was entirely predictable by WAB for at-large selection, right? That is amazing progress, honestly. Now just stop with the injury stuff and we have a good system. (Easy solution: limit the committee to just bracketing the teams that qualify by WAB.)

done, thanks. Sorry - something extremely weird happened (line of code got commented out on remote computer?) that caused that to stop updating yesterday.

Whispers: he sleeps in May

Now we are talking about Mini Dan Majerle. But not a Dan Majerle bobble head (I think)