22 March 2008, 8:40 am
The first round saw me finish a highly respectable 26-6 (and atop my pool). Here are the latest predictions for the second round.
The power ranking adjustments do call for one change from my previous predictions. I now have Stanford defeating Marquette.
Round of 32
North Carolina
78
Arkansas
70
W
Notre Dame
66
Washington St.
69
W
Oklahoma
59
Louisville
65
W
Butler
68
Tennessee
71
W
Kansas
76
Nevada Las Vegas
60
W
Villanova
71
Siena
65
W
Kansas St.
62
Wisconsin
66
W
Davidson
62
Georgetown
68
L
Memphis
69
Mississippi [...]
19 March 2008, 4:08 pm
Here are the picks, with projected scores, all the way through the tournament based on the power rankings formula. I will update the picks after each round.
Day One (16-0)
Georgia
60
Xavier
72
W
Portland St.
58
Kansas
84
W
Temple
64
Michigan St.
73
W
Kentucky
60
Marquette
67
W
Baylor
69
Purdue
73
W
Kent St.
64
Nevada Las Vegas
65
W
Oral Roberts
62
Pittsburgh
68
W
Cornell
60
Stanford
77
W
Kansas St.
69
Southern California
67
W
Belmont
64
Duke
88
W
Winthrop
51
Washington St.
62
W
Texas A&M
64
Brigham Young
60
W
Cal St. Fullerton
60
Wisconsin
79
W
Arizona
67
West Virginia
68
W
George Mason
67
Notre Dame
76
W
Mississippi Valley [...]
15 March 2008, 1:55 am
The Illini have been headscratchers all season long. Their power rankings would suggest that they should be about .500 in conference but as we all know they’ve played well below that level. In the Pomeroy rankings, there’s only been a very small difference between Purdue and Illinois all year (which perhaps indicates just [...]
9 March 2008, 11:27 am
Regular season ends with Penn State going for its fifth straight home win which I sure most fans thought would be an impossibility once Claxton went down for the season in the third Big Ten game of the season.
Game Predictions:
Ohio State 64.6 Michigan State 64.3 (I guess OSU wins in OT)
Indiana 75 Penn State [...]
1 March 2008, 2:13 pm
Tonight is senior night for Penn State and the rumor mill is that fallen star Geary Claxton will suit up and make a symbolic start. Supposedly an arrangement has been struck where Michigan will allow PSU to win the jump, the refs will call an immediate time out, and Claxton will be removed from [...]
19 February 2008, 7:08 pm
Two games tonight with the marquis matchup being Purdue at Indiana with first place in the B10 conference at stake. Northwestern also visits Iowa.
Game Predictions:
Indiana 70 Purdue 64
Iowa 64 Northwestern 55
16 February 2008, 12:52 pm
After a week off, PSU faces a must win situation when Illinois travels to Happy Valley. Two weeks ago in their last home game, the Lions had a nice upset win over Michigan State. However, their failed to sustain that momentum dropping two since including in their last outing, a very winnable game [...]
13 February 2008, 5:36 pm
Given that both teams won last night I thought it would be interesting to take a look at their updated rankings (I also changed the timeline so it would be twice a week, after they both played).
Looks familiar – they both track together.
12 February 2008, 7:51 pm
Purdue continues their unlikely climb through the power rankings moving up to 26th according to Pomeroy. Still they aren’t where you would traditionally expect the outright B10 conference leader to sit. Nor are they getting the votes in the polls that you would expect (19th in the AP and 23rd in the Coaches).
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