BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- Four weeks. Six games. That is all that remains of the University of Dayton Flyers Men’s Basketball 2013-2014 regular season. UD Pride honcho
Chris Rieman succinctly tweeted the work that remains to be done and the RPI payoff to be had:
Win out: #32
Go 5-1 and lose to SLU: #39
Go 4-2 and lose to SLU and SJU: #46
Here is the link to the most accurate RPI tracker on the planet, the UD Pride RPI Ranker that Chris maintains:
http://www.udpride.com/images/rpi.htm
As the old saw goes:
“Play ‘em one at a time, boys.”
-- UD’s latest win, over
URI from the Ram perspective courtesy of
The ProJo:
http://www.providencejournal.com/spo...-by-flyers.ece
-- RushtheCourt.net checks in on the Atlantic 10:
https://rushthecourt.net/2014/02/12/...source=twitter
-- Not that anyone in the A-10 is snoozing on a team that is undefeated in conference play, but
The New York Post feels the rest of the country needs to stop sleeping on SLU:
http://nypost.com/2014/02/10/posts-t...n-saint-louis/
-- With the February 20th NBA trading deadline looming, it is nice to know that Chris Johnson of the Celtics isn’t going anywhere:
http://www.hoopsrumors.com/2014/02/p...-deadline.html
-- With only a month left in the college basketball season, it’s time to start getting out the NCAA tea leaves and guess who is in and who is out.
RushtheCourt.net compares the resumes of UD, SJU, BYU, SMU and BSU
http://rushthecourt.net/2014/02/12/o...source=twitter
The RPI Wizard page for UD
http://www.rpiforecast.com/wizard/Dayton.html
CBS Sports’ NCAA Tournament Bracketology
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/bracketology
-- Back by popular demand, another installment of
The Annotated Bill Walton, Stanford/Washington edition:
http://rushthecourt.net/2014/02/13/t...lapse-edition/
-- Contrary to conventional wisdom, having a lot of returning players is not necessarily a guarantee of success:
http://www1.realgm.com/article/23186...ot-a-Guarantee
-- Ken Pomeroy with a couple of insightful blog posts:
What makes defenses slow?
http://kenpom.com/blog/index.php/web..._defenses_slow
The invisible hand of home-court advantage:
http://kenpom.com/blog/index.php/web...ourt_advantage
-- Here is a link to the trailer for a new doc on Lenny Cooke, a contemporary of LeBron James, Amar’e Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony who was considered the best of the bunch:
http://www.lennycookemovie.com/
-- Sometimes in Major League Baseball the best trade is the one that you don’t make:
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=10410371
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“The Sweet Tweet of the Week” comes to us from
The DDN’s Dave Jablonski on UD’s use of advanced statistics to track how the Flyers perform with various player combinations:
https://twitter.com/davidjabs7/statu...357312/photo/1
That’s it “From the Swamp.”
You can email me at:
swampy@udpride.com