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Nitology: 3/16/2023

Posted on March 16, 2023 by nathanalbright

At this point, more than half of the games of the NIT have been played (as hard as that seems to believe), and the 32 teams that were invited to this tournament have been but to 16 teams that will … Continue reading →

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Nitology: March 12, 2023

Posted on March 12, 2023 by nathanalbright

We should have a good idea tonight (how late, it is not clear, depending on when it shows on ESNU) what the NIT bids for this year are. There were eleven teams who clinched an automatic bid to the NIT … Continue reading →

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NITology: March 2, 2023

Posted on March 3, 2023 by nathanalbright

A few years ago there was a website that appears to have gone defunct that did what no one at the time (or really, since then) has been willing to do, and that is examine the teams that are competing … Continue reading →

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There’s A Reason Why You’re Wide Open

Posted on May 26, 2022 by nathanalbright

Sometimes team sports is a lot like group projects. I remember mostly hating group projects when I was a student, largely because I ended up doing the vast majority of the work while others got an easy A out of … Continue reading →

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Not All Losses Are Created Equal

Posted on March 14, 2022 by nathanalbright

As someone who has watched the NCAA Tournament in Women’s Basketball, I tend to find those who push for equal promotion and advertising attention between it and the men’s game to be somewhat puzzling, since the men’s game is vastly … Continue reading →

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The Bellarmine Rule

Posted on March 9, 2022 by nathanalbright

For those who do not know, Bellarmine University is a small Catholic university in Louisville, Kentucky, that is aiming to have a role in the promotion of college basketball. Over the past few years there has been a growing concern … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Money Players

Posted on May 9, 2020 by nathanalbright

Money Players, by Armen Keteyian, Harvey Araton, and Martin F. Dardis This is a book that had to feel like it was a fiery expose of the problems of basketball when it was published in the late 1990’s.  For those … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Hoops!

Posted on May 9, 2020 by nathanalbright

Hoops!:  Confessions Of A College Basketball Analyst, by Billy Packer with Roland Lazenby This book is probably not as impressive as the author thinks it is.  Even so, despite not being particularly interested in Billy Packer on his own merits, … Continue reading →

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The CBI For What It’s Worth

Posted on April 4, 2019 by nathanalbright

[Note:  South Florida ended up winning the 2019 CBI.  Article updated below.] Starting in 2008, the College Basketball Invitational (hereafter CBI) became the third of what are now four postseason college basketball tournaments for division I teams.  Without a doubt, … Continue reading →

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Profile Of A Bubble Team: Southern Cal (2018)

Posted on March 11, 2018 by nathanalbright

Update:  So yeah, USC is in the NIT, preparing to blast (we hope) UNC Asheville. A few years ago I wrote about one of my alma maters (the University of South Florida) as a bubble team in a particularly contentious … Continue reading →

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