How To Be Cinderella
As the postseason is underway, whether it’s your conference tournament or the national tournament, here’s a few tips on becoming the belle of the ball. Have realistic expectations – Good…
Three Tips for your Conference Tourney
It’s Conference Tournament time!! Here’s three tips to hopefully get you to a conference title. Double-check those travel plans! – I’ll never forget a panicked phone call from our head…
What is the StatGeek Index?
We get lots of questions from coaches and since we launched StatGeekAnalytics, one of the common ones has been: what’s the StatGeek Index? The answer is it’s the result of…
The Four Factors
You may or may not have heard of the Four Factors. They are Effective Field Goal Percentage, Rebounding Percentage, Turnover Percentage and Free Throw Rate. The idea came from basketball…
Rematches
As much as I used to love watching film and looking at stats, nothing beats when you’ve actually played a team and are getting ready to play them again. Like…
Team Chemistry
We were at a critical point in the season. We were 5-4 and had lost two in a row but we showed signs of life in the second half of…
Slaying Goliath
Every conference has that one powerhouse team. Sometimes they are at the top for just one or two seasons and sometimes they are at the top for years and years…
Same Old Sh*t
When I was an assistant at Colby College (ME), every year we would play Bates College twice. Jim Murphy was the head coach at the time and by my second…
Be Thankful for Rebounds
When it comes to rebounds, the more you get, the better, right? You never look down at the stat sheet and get upset over JUST 10 rebounds. And when your…
Harden and Lebron’s Big Nights
Sunday night, James Harden had a monster game: 56 points, 13 assists. He was 19-25 from the field (7-8 on three’s, 11-12 from the foul line). There’s really no need…