Category Archives: Men’s Basketball

Gonzaga Players Arrested For Drug Possession

If your a college athlete, is this how you spend your Friday night. Do you spend it riding around in your SUV getting high and carrying around hallucinogenic mushrooms? The two players from Gonzaga, Josh Heytvelt and Theo Davis, were arrested after a traffic stop in which their taillights weren’t working. The officers smelt the maryjane from the car and searched the vehicle, only to find the mushrooms. They were arrested for the investigation of drug possession. According to Washington state law, the pot found was only enough for a misdemeanor drug charge while the possession of the ‘shrooms is a felony. Heytvelt is the second leading scorer for the Bulldogs while Davis is red-shirting this season after preseason shoulder surgery. Both players have been suspended indefinitely by the team. I’d say put Gonzaga down for an NIT bid now as losing their second leading scorer could hurt their chances of making a run into the NCAA’s. Also makes me wonder, did Adam Morrison smoke pot with them last season, hence his hippie look. TechnoratiTechnorati: ,

Bruce Pearl, Fan and Coach

Earlier this week on a radio show, University of Tennessee Men’s basketball coach was pumped up for the UT women’s game on Monday night against Duke. He had stated he wasn’t happy with the way the players were treated last year when the Tennessee women played Duke.

Here’s the background on that. UT women’s player Alexis Hornbuckle was arrested when she was a senior in high school for misdemeanor shoplifting at Wal-Mart back in West Virginia. Well the Cameron Crazies taunted Hornbuckle with empty Wal-Mart bags and chanted various phrases that we hear on Wal-Mart commercials.

So Bruce Pearl decided that he was going to show up at the game and sit in the student section with no shirt and his chest painted orange. And here are the pictures to show that he did it:

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A Look at the 2007 College Basketball RPI

For those of you who don’t know what the College Basketball RPI (Ratings Percentage Index) is, I will do my best to explain it. The RPI is the formula used to rate men’s and women’s college basketball teams. The basic formula is 1/4 (Winning Percentage) + 1/2 (Opponents’ Average Winning Percentage) + 1/4 (Opponents’ Opponents’ Winning Percentage). This taken from the NCAA website will explain it the best.

The Rating Percentage Index (RPI) was created in 1981 to provide supplemental data for the Division I Men’s Basketball Committee in its evaluation of teams for at-large selection and seeding of the championship bracket.

The RPI is intended to be used as one of many resources used by the committee in the selection, seeding and bracketing process. It never should be considered anything but an additional evaluation tool. No computer program that is based on pure numbers can take into account subjective concepts, e.g., how well a team is playing down the stretch,what the loss or return of a top player means to a team, or how emotional a specific conference game may be.

Several independent elements are combined to produce the RPI. These elements are a part of the statistical information that can be utilized by each member in an objective manner.

Each committee member independently evaluates a vast pool of information available during the process to develop individual preferences. It is these subjective opinions–developed after many hours of personal observations, discussion with coaches, directors of athletics and commissioners, and review and comparison of objective data–that dictate how each individual ultimately will vote on all issues related to the selection, seeding and bracketing process.

While the various elements of the RPI are important in the evaluation process, the tournament bracket each year is based on the subjectivity of each individual committee member to select the best at-large teams available and to create a nationally balanced championship.

So lets take a look at some teams and conference’s RPI’s after the jump.

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Congratulations Bob Knight

Well it’s New Years Day and it is usually a football day for most people. Not for me right now. Thru my normal flipping of the channels, I came across the Texas Tech-New Mexico basketball game. At first Texas Tech was winning by 20 pts so I changed the channel back to football. Then I went back to the basketball game and New Mexico was winning. Anyways, I digress. As you can tell by the headline, Bob Knight got his 880th career coaching victory passing Dean Smith as the all time winningest coach in College Basketball History. Congratulations to Bob Knight.

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