My favorite part of this visual is that the gap between Maliq and guys like Mark Sears and Kadary Richmond (the best players on other top teams) is less than the gap between Coop and Broome. National player of the year race, my [wanker].
And yet Sporting News gave it to Broome
Hard to argue with the tried and true criterion of giving the award to the best player on the third best team.
Where do you see that The Sporting News has announced a Player of the Year? All I see is their All-American teams, with the players listed alphabetically -- i.e., Broome, Clayton, Flagg, etc.
Here's some specific games to focus on:
Good call on the A10 and Big West!
The image announcing it was posted alongside the article on Reddit.
It's possible. I have the raw info (at least from 2002 to 2023) and can probably run those numbers at some point.
Okay, thanks. It seems strange that the announcement of their POTY choice isn't mentioned on The Sporting News website along with their All-American team selections.
Slight correction: The current bracketing principles can be found here. The document you referenced is from when the First Four was called the first round and so the second and third rounds were the rounds of 64 and 32, respectively. The current principle relating to this point is:
Could be a "leak" or even an error?
Thanks for this Nugget... I usually do this each year for Duke's seeding, but given how set that seems to be (something is coming on the front page from me soon summarizing my series of posts over the past few days), but this Champ Week it seems like our rooting interests are best focused elsewhere
Hogs blew a 20 point second half lead, but looks like they're going to pull it out. Hogs up 4 with the ball, 8 seconds left.
This may (or may) not be helpful.
| Group | N | R32 | S16 | E8 | FF | F2 | Champ | Avg Wins |
| Under-seeded | 42 | 50% | 12% | 5% | 5% | 2% | 0% | 0.74 |
| Properly-seeded | 49 | 47% | 10% | 8% | 4% | 2% | 0% | 0.71 |
| Over-seeded | 93 | 53% | 5% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 0.62 |
| Group | N | R32 | S16 | E8 | FF | F2 | Champ | Avg Wins |
| Under-seeded | 40 | 73% | 48% | 15% | 10% | 5% | 3% | 1.53 |
| Properly-seeded | 93 | 75% | 51% | 16% | 11% | 3% | 0% | 1.56 |
| Over-seeded | 51 | 53% | 22% | 4% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0.80 |
And this after they already nearly pissed away their tourney chances by losing big at South Carolina a week and a half ago.
Bracket Matrix has them as a 10 and thus outside of the first four. I think the danger for Arkansas was playing themselves out of the tournament, which they could really only do by losing to SCAR. I doubt they get punished for losing to a good Ole Miss team, although a win would be good insurance against bid stealers and hot streaks by other bubble teams.
