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Young teams, single elimination
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Analysis · 3 min read
Why single elimination produces chaos
The tournament is not unpredictable because the teams are close. It is unpredictable because one game is far too short to measure anything reliably.
Analysis · 3 min read
How a coach builds a system with annual turnover
College rosters change every year, so the durable asset is not the players. It is the set of habits new players can be taught quickly.
Analysis · 3 min read
The tactical meaning of tempo
Playing slowly is not caution and playing fast is not aggression. Tempo is a decision about how many chances a weaker team gets.
Analysis · 3 min read
Why conference play is the real season
Repeated fixtures against familiar opponents strip away the disguises that non-conference scheduling allows.
Feature · 3 min read
What the transfer era changed about college basketball
Player movement turned roster construction into something closer to a professional market, with all the planning problems that implies.
Feature · 3 min read
Why college arenas feel different
Small buildings, student sections and short seasons combine into an atmosphere professional venues rarely reproduce.
Feature · 3 min read
How to scout a team in ten minutes
You can form a reliable impression of an unfamiliar side quickly if you watch the right three things instead of the ball.
Blog · 3 min read
Seeding is a ranking of resumes, not of teams
Selection compares schedules that barely overlap, then produces a precise-looking order from an inherently imprecise comparison.
Blog · 3 min read
Young teams are not inconsistent, they are unfinished
The word inconsistent implies a fault. What is usually being described is a group still learning, in public, at speed.
Blog · 3 min read
A bigger tournament is not automatically a better one
Adding teams adds games. Whether it adds meaning depends entirely on which teams are added and what it does to the season before it.
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