Our series reviewing the numbers put up by last year’s champions continues with the NCAA D2 Women’s Basketball champs, Lubbock Christian. The Lady Chaps finished 32-5 including a thrilling double-overtime championship game win over Southwestern Oklahoma. Three is the Magic Number The Lady Chaps made 979 field goals all season, the 5th lowest total for…
With an average margin of victory of nearly 14 points, the UW-Oshkosh Titans rolled to the NCAA Division III Men’s National Title last season. That’s a pretty dominant run but it was on the heels of losses in two of their last three games including a 20-point loss in the WIAC semifinals. That didn’t make…
Last summer, we took a deep dive into characteristics shared by the last ten champions at each level of basketball. Today we start our look into the most recent champion to see how they stacked up. Thomas More is still good at offense This was the highest scoring team since the last two Thomas More…
If you’ve been checking out StatGeek Analytics, you’ve seen Wofford near the top all season long. And we’ve gotten a lot of questions about why we love Wofford. Well, here you go: A great record They’re 29-4! Those four losses were all to tournament teams – on the road against Oklahoma, Kansas and Mississippi State…
Overall, StatGeek did pretty well on both the men’s and women’s side of the NCAA D3 Tournament, above 70% on the men’s side and over 80% on the women’s side. We did lose two of our final four teams on the women’s side, Hope and Trine, and one of our finalists on the men’s side,…
Let’s talk about correlation. For most teams, the season is over or just about to wrap up. With a season’s worth of data available, you can really start to see what stats most correlate to scoring margin. What is correlation? When two numbers are positively correlated, that means as one goes up, so does the…
We used the StatGeek Analytics Model to predict all 63 games in the 2019 NCAA D3 Men’s Tournament. The model is based on about a decade’s worth of data including data from this past season to determine who is most likely to win a match-up between any two teams. (Try it yourself for free at…
We used our StatGeek Analytics model to predict all 63 games in the 2019 NCAA D3 Women’s Basketball Tournament. The model is based on data from the past ten seasons and takes into account stats from the current season to give a probability of who is most likely to win any matchup. (By the way,…
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Coming down the stretch of the season, you’re seeing conference opponents possibly for a second time. You might see them for a third time in your conference tournament. No matter the results of those initial match-ups, you need to start making adjustments for the rematches. Some adjustments may be easy, especially if a key player…