The CAA sure knows how to stay in the news. The conference is starting a new television deal, changing up its membership, strengthening its rules and staying on the front of minds of college basketball fans all over the country. Part of that has been the conference’s decision and some of it is beyond their control, but let’s look at a few key issues the league is currently dealing with.
Tag: Georgia State
CAA Tournament Predictions
The CAA tourney is a showcase for the league. Fans from throughout the eastern seaboard are going to be heading to Richmond, VA with the hopes that their team can make a run through the tourney, which starts with a first round on Friday and claim the league’s automatic berth. At least two teams, VCU and Drexel, are hoping that a run to even the finals of the tournament could mean an at-large berth into the NCAA tournament.
Similarity Scores for Random Teams
While I had the similarity scores loaded I wanted to run them for a few other teams. I’ll cover in the NEC teams in this space next week. Instead I ran the numbers for a few random teams that are of particular interest this season: Syracuse, Murray State, Harvard, Oral Roberts and Georgia State. The Orange and Racers are undefeated at the moment. Harvard is the favorite in the Ivy League and ORU and GSU came from the “Ask the Audience” segment on Twitter. Check out all of those teams’ Top 5 comparisons. (All data through January 17.)
NIT Bracketology: The paper tiger
By mid-January the college basketball analyst comes out to hunt for Bubble Teams. It’s an exercise dependent on looking through RPI table, the “eye test” and other glorious means of trying to determine which teams will make the NCAA tournament. In particular, the analysts – some of who are very well respected – are trying to separate out the paper tigers.
NYC Buckets Archive 