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Conference Rise & Fall: The Data
People have been emailing me this week asking how I came up with the groupings for the Conference Rise & Fall articles. While the groupings I used were based on a mix of intuition and stats, here are the actual conference RPI's over the last decade. Notice the clean split between certain league divisions.. for example, the BCS leagues and non-BCS leagues. The difference in avg RPI between the best and worst BCS leagues (ACC & Pac-10) is 2.7, which is almost as big as the gap between the Pac-10 and the closest non-BCS league.
MAAC Semifinals Recap: Rider to Face Siena
ALBANY, N.Y.- To say that things didn't look good from a depth standpoint heading into tonight's MAAC Tournament semifinal for Rider would be an understatement. Both Ryan Thompson and Justin Robinson missed the game due to injury, but Jason Thompson showed the Times Union Center crowd why he's Player of the Year and Matt Griffin and Kamron Warner stepped up to get the Broncs a 76-71 victory over Marist.
MAAC Quaterfinals Recap: Rider Survives, Niagara Dethroned
ALBANY, N.Y.- On paper, the matchup between conference co-champion Rider and last-place Canisius looked like an absolute snoozer. The Broncs, in sweeping the Golden Griffins, won the two games in blowout fashion. The second of which was a 102-51 whipping that underscored just how bad Canisius has been all year. But a not so funny thing happened: Canisius didn't fold.
MAAC Tournament Preview
Tuesday Report Card: Josh Duncan's Perfect Week
An "interesting" finish to Marist/Fairfeld...perfect summary of the MAAC
Tonight's battle between Marist and Fairfield went just about as expected for a game between schools tied with 9-6 league records. Double overtime, won in the end by the home-standing Stags, now winners of five straight. But how this game got to its conclusion is something that will be talked about from now until the entire conference shows up in Albany, NY for the conference tournament.
NYC Metro Ranking & Report: Jason Thompson Leads Rider
I’d be a fool not to mention the New
York Giants’ 17-14 victory in Super Bowl XLII. Congratulations to the
organization and all you Giants who helped this team achieve their 3-5 home
record. Just kidding, enjoy the moment and the fact that just when everyone said
this team couldn’t win, they went ahead and did it. Now, let’s move on to the
week that was in the metropolitan area on the hardwood.
Team of the Week: Rider
NYC Metro Preview & Ranking
No one follows the team in the NYC
Metropolitan area more than Raphielle Johnson. He previews the 19 local teams
and ranks them throughout the season.
Early conference action...and Villanova steals one (or has one handed to them)
In the era of the "superconference", more leagues are tipping off conference games in the month of December. Tonight, the MAAC, NEC, Ohio Valley and Horizon all had at least one conference game on tap. And with this being a blog on the northeast, I'll focus on the MAAC and NEC openers.
Niagara 89, Rider 77
