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…
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Quick preview of the big D2 women’s matchup tomorrow between the #2 Lady Buffs and #18 Belles. Both teams have lost just one game all season and they have one common opponent, Texas A&M Kingsville. Kingsville handed the West Texas A&M their only loss of the year just last night. It took making 12 of…
Another Thursday night and another great women’s basketball matchup. The Irish have lost just once, to UConn, and Louisville is unbeaten. I think the biggest stats to watch tonight will be rebounding and free throws. Notre Dame has dominated their opponents in both categories while Louisville has held just a slight edge here. In fact…
Let’s talk about Thursday’s big matchup in Waco between the UConn Huskies and Baylor Bears. When looking at the numbers here, let’s establish a few things: There’s just one loss between both teams so no breakdowns will involve win-loss record ie. UConn is undefeated when they do x…..doesn’t really matter since both teams have won…
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I got a number of questions from the points per possession post a couple of weeks ago about the number of possessions per game. So, let’s take a look at that today as well as how that translates to actual time. First, let’s talk about pace of play. Pace of play takes into account not…
I had a conversation last weekend with someone who is a Six Sigma Black Belt. The first thing that came to mind was ‘this guy could probably kick my ass’ but then I remembered he said ‘six sigma’ first. So, he could probably just kick my ass at running a manufacturing plant. But one of…