Category: Basketball

There’s a nice article about former Princeton coach Pete Carril and the motion offense popularly associated with his teams: Carril has not been a college coach for 11 years. But he is wearing a Georgetown cap, and people keep calling to talk about the precise pass-and-cut offense that he supposedly invented but never called the… Continue reading Princeton Offense

Via Dave Sez, a good Washington Post article about the post-Maryland career of Byron Mouton: Five years have passed since Mouton helped Maryland win the national title the last time it was held in Atlanta, but the significance of that weekend still casts a shadow over his daily life in the American Basketball Association. Since… Continue reading Stuck in a (Shining) Moment You Can’t Get Out Of

Hoops commentary has fallen off dramatically lately, but it’s not because my teams are out of the tournament. Or, rather, it’s not just because my teams are out of the tournament. Mostly, it’s because Kate and I were out of town for the weekend, on vacation in Boston, and I barely saw any of the… Continue reading Final Four

One of the unfortunate elements about the NCAA basketball tournament is that in addition to some great basketball, it brings around a few reminders of what an unpleasant organization the NCAA can be: During the first round of the N.C.A.A. tournament last weekend, John Goodman — a freshman who wears a steer costume to cheer… Continue reading Lighten Up, Already

In addition to watching and reading about college basketball, I play a fair amount of pick-up basketball these days– I try to play three days a week at lunchtime, and most weeks I manage two. Often, the noon hoops game is the highlight of the day, and I suspect I don’t want to think too… Continue reading Hoops Communication

In a weekend wrap-up post, Dave makes a passing reference to one of the more uncomfortable aspects of basketball: Early in the day, I happened upon an NIT game on TV, where Mississippi State was playing someone. While I was watching, I saw a quick, aggressive Bulldog guard drive through the defense for an impressive… Continue reading Race and Hoops

Saturday finally saw some good action in the NCAA tournamnet. Three of the eight games went to overtime, and four of the remaining five were decided by seven points or less. VCU and Xavier came up short against Pitt and Ohio State, but made fantastic runs to get the games into OT, and #6 seed… Continue reading NCAA Tournament 2007: That’s More Like It

I saw very little basketball on the second day of the tournament, because I had a meeting at 1:00 that ran until almost 3:00. I watched a bit of the second set of games between that and going to a faculty-student St. Patrick’s Day event at 4:30, and then dozed off during the games after… Continue reading NCAA Tournament 2007: Day Two, More Chalk

A few days back, commenter igor eduardo kupfer compiled the log5 predictions for the first round, and tried to come up with a test of their validity. We didn’t agree on anything, but for the sake of intellectual honesty, here’s a breakdown of how those predictions fared, binned in 10% groups (so 0.5-0.6 collects those… Continue reading Slide Rule Update