So You’re Telling Me There’s a Chance?

Your men’s college basketball team is up 5 with 2:30 left in the second half. How nervous…

Has This Been the “Maddest” March?

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Can ‘Press Virginia’ Slow Down the Wildcat Attack?

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Four more down.

As the second week of the NCAA Tournament progresses, the teams that survive inch ever closer to San Antonio. Given the wild ride this year…

More Than a Feeling: Predicting Close Games

If you could predict the likelihood of a game playing out in a particular way, what…

Three is the Magic Number

There’s no spectacle quite like the first Thursday of the NCAA Tournament: all tournament games — all day long. Upsets, bracket busters, iconic programs — and of course — lots of three-pointers. Lots of them.

Of Playbooks and Notebooks

While BigQuery never gets tired of running datasets, the humans devising queries sometimes do. So for today…

Turnovers and Possessions

TL;DR: In the LIU-Brooklyn vs Radford game we expect the two teams to combine for 129 possessions with a probability of 72.7% and we anticipate at least 22 combined assists with a probability of 72.0%.

A Glacial Chess Match

We made it to the Final Four and so did Michigan and Loyola-Chicago! Let’s take a closer look at the game between the Ramblers and the Wolverines.

Loyola-Chicago and Michigan play at a nearly identically slow pace, but achieve desirable results in slightly…