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Villanova by the Numbers: A Few Big East Previews
Backing The Pack: College Basketball Prospectus 2009-2010 Available Now
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| College Hoops Prospectus '10 is available. 8 ACC teams proj to finish between 9-7 & 7-9. Watch out for UVA, apparently. http://bit.ly/3ujx4Q 12 days ago |
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Monday Links
UM Hoops.com —
It’s here! College Basketball Prospectus 09-10
Buy, buy, buy.
Hoops is back … with a whimper
It’s opening day… but who cares? Seth Davis examines college basketball’s weak opening day
RTC Conference Primers: #1 – Big Ten
The Big Ten Geeks helped preview the Big Ten for Rush the Court and they had some interesting choices, picking Michigan 5th and placing DeShawn Sims on the all-conference team over Manny Harris.
2010 NCAA tournament bracket prediction
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A Few Big East Previews
Villanova by the Numbers —
... have not yet released their BCS Preview -- oops, spoke too soon) that I will use as a reference point throughout the season. They call the conference title for the Mountaineers, but note the Pythagorean WP margin (WVU's .951 vs Villanova's .948) suggest this should be a very closely contested season. ...
College Basketball Prospectus 2009-2010 Available Now
Backing The Pack —
You can download a pdf version for eight bucks.
Here's an excerpt:
Tracy Smith (6-8, 240, Jr.). As noted above, Smith was a force of nature on the offensive glass last year. Nevertheless his overall offensive efficiency is hurt by the fact that he’s a bad free throw shooter who’sfouled often. In fact he’s almost as successful from the field (54 percent on his twos) as at the line (59 percent). Keep in mind that Smith took on the starring role in the NC State offense even when he was a sophomore playing alongside ...
Linking Laconically is going basketball only tonight for old time's sake
The Only Colors —
... Blog Archive " RTC Conference Primers: #1 – Big Ten Projected Big Ten standings look about right; might bump NW up a couple wins and IU and Iowa down a win each.
Big Ten Geeks: Fun with Rosters! MSU is the third most homegrown team in the conference.
State of the Blog: Year Three | UM Hoops.com Dylan and I both got are starts as basketball bloggers two years ago. So we're like blogging brothers--of exactly the same age.
Basketball Prospectus | Unfiltered Get your preseason book from Mr. Gasaway et al. ...
The Book
the kenpom.com blog —
... (with some non major-conference content). It’s remarkably cheap, yet just as informative as last season. Throw some money our way so it can happen again next year. John has a more convincing sales pitch here. ...

