Archive for March 15th, 2010

Need Help With Your Final Four Projections? A Good Place to Start Might Be Ken Pom’s Top 5

Posted March 15, 2010, 1:30 pm by Jason McIntyre (113 Comments)

Ken Pomeroy is a well-respected college hoops guy who is heavy on the stats. We decided to look at his “Top 5 rated teams” going into the tournament from 2004-2009 (Pomeroy kindly passed along the pre-tourney ratings) to see how they wound up doing in the NCAA tournament. Of the 30 teams (Top 5 from [...]

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Brady Quinn to the Broncos … Can They Keep Brandon Marshall?

Posted March 15, 2010, 1:00 pm by Jason McIntyre (82 Comments)

Brady Quinn: In  Mike Holmgren’s quest to nuke the Browns, he traded Brady Quinn to Denver. (Jake Del’homme will be lustily booed by the Dawg Pound in his third home game, book it.) We’ve long been bullish on Quinn, who has only played 12 games (and parts of two more) in three years with one [...]

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Jets Let One Aging Running Back Leave … to Sign Another Old One, For Nearly the Same Money

Posted March 15, 2010, 11:45 am by Jason McIntyre (80 Comments)

LaDainian Tomlinson to the Jets: Not thrilled. Here’s Tomlinson‘s rushing stats the last three years: 1,474 yards, 4.7 yards-per-carry ; 1,110 yards, 3.8 ypc; 730 yards, 3.3 ypc. He’s trending downward and turns 31 in June. The Jets are paying him $5.1 million over two years. Here’s the last three years worth of stats for [...]

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Jay Bilas Lapped the Field Yesterday

Posted March 15, 2010, 6:45 am by Tim Ryan (29 Comments)

If you were engrossed in Selection Sunday festivities yesterday, you’re well aware that Jay Bilas was on fire. The feisty lawyer has always been a solid hoops analyst, but he’s taken it up a notch of late, injecting brutally honest truths into the tournament discussion that have gone unmatched thus far. Below are a couple [...]

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