Top 25 talk

[thebear]

Small samples sizes are a statisticians enemy. Its tough to make strong conclusions.

Yet ink-stained wretches and announcers will take 10 at-bats or 4 2/3 innings and say 'conclusive proof!"

No one ever accused an announcer of being a statistician.



Actually, for a number of years (71-75), I did both announce and keep stats.  Lately tho, I don't multitask as much, although I did call statcrew, keep the book, and work the PA at different times last season, and I am a trained Six Sigma Black Belt. 

I love the saying, LIARS, DAMN LIARS & STATISTICS!!!!

[thebear]

P.S.  Last I knew, 4 & 2/3 innings is 14 at bats, not 10.  I have scored a few baseball games in my career as well.

[sac]

It's the new NCAC with five teams that can win it.

Plus people are buying what I'm selling about other teams. Yeah, that's it!

Seriously, the NCAC is getting deeper. We also removed someone that held the league down, too.

People like math on this section of the board.


NCAC - Earlham + DePauw = better NCAC

[magicman]

P.S.  Last I knew, 4 & 2/3 innings is 14 at bats, not 10.  I have scored a few baseball games in my career as well.

bear,
Don't think smed was saying 10 at bats is 4 & 2/3 innings . I believe he was referring to hitters and pitchers.

[smedindy]

P.S.  Last I knew, 4 & 2/3 innings is 14 at bats, not 10.  I have scored a few baseball games in my career as well.

Those weren't meant to be take with an equal sign. Just illustrating inanities.

[Titan Q]

Video for #3 Augustana vs Chicago (tipping in a few minutes)...

http://client.stretchinternet.com/client/augustana.portal#

[Hugenerd]

MIT gets a routine 24 point win over Wheelock, 71-47.  Jamie Karraker had 7 more 3s for the Engineers, that's 24 3s in the last 4 games alone!  Doubling down on Hollingsworth and Tashman is opening things up for the outside shooters, and they are more than happy to kick it back out.  Hollingsworth had 18 points (8-14 THe) and 8 boards. MIT moves to 12-0 and are off Jan 4 when they host Springfield.

[John Gleich]

Heckuva game in Stevens Point in the WIAC in-game update.  10 mins left, 5 point game, a 33 point and 26 point night for each team.  Check it out

[John Gleich]

#25 UW Stevens Point's home winning streak is now 26 and WIAC regular season streak is now at 13 as #13 Whitewater misses a 3 pointer at the buzzer to win.


#25 UW Stevens Point 79
#13 UW Whitewater 77


ORV UW River Falls beat UW Stout 72-52

[Darryl Nester]

How They Fared (So Far)

Top 25

Rank	Pts	Team	W-L	Results
#1	624	Middlebury	7-0	IDLE
#2	560	Virginia Wesleyan	6-1	12/17 vs. Shenandoah
#3	556	Augustana	8-1	def. Chicago, 93-52
#4	511	MIT	12-0	def. Wheelock, 71-47
#5	490	Emory	8-0	IDLE
#6	480	Amherst	9-1	def. Anna Maria, 76-57
#7	477	Williams	8-1	IDLE
#8	417	Whitworth	6-1	12/18 vs. Northwestern (Minn.)
#9	396	Marietta	6-2	LOST at Ohio, 54-88; 12/17 vs. Ohio Northern
#10	392	Franklin and Marshall	9-0	IDLE
#11	360	Cabrini	7-0	12/17 vs. Scranton
#12	305	Mary Hardin-Baylor	6-0	12/15 vs. Mississippi College; 12/17 vs. Louisiana College
#13	279	UW-Whitewater	8-1	LOST at #25 UW-Stevens Point, 77-79
#14	235	St. Thomas	7-1	IDLE
#15	227	Puget Sound	8-0	12/17 at New Hope Christian
#16	214	Birmingham-Southern	7-0	12/16 at Centre; 12/18 at Sewanee
#17	212	Wabash	8-0	IDLE
#18	189	Hope	8-1	IDLE
#19	188	Wooster	5-2	IDLE
#20	124	WPI	8-1	IDLE
#21	85	Buffalo State	6-1	12/16 vs. Keuka; 12/17 vs. TBD
#22	84	Claremont-Mudd-Scripps	9-0	IDLE
#23	82	Rochester	8-2	IDLE
#24	75	Oswego State	8-1	12/16 vs. Cazenovia
#25	63	UW-Stevens Point	7-2	def. #13 UW-Whitewater, 79-77; 12/18 at T#26 Edgewood

Others receiving votes

Rank	Pts	Team	W-L	Results
T#26	60	Edgewood	9-0	12/18 vs. #25 UW-Stevens Point
T#26	60	Washington U.	7-2	12/17 at Illinois Wesleyan
T#26	60	Wittenberg	4-2	IDLE
#29	53	Rhode Island College	9-1	IDLE
#30	52	Wheaton (Ill.)	7-2	IDLE
#31	35	William Paterson	8-1	12/16 vs. Lehman
T#32	27	Ohio Wesleyan	8-1	IDLE
T#32	27	Western Connecticut	10-1	def. Clark, 77-74
#34	22	Grinnell	8-0	IDLE
#35	21	Bethany	9-0	def. Frostburg State, 74-73; 12/15 at Olivet
#36	18	St. Mary's (Md.)	7-2	12/18 at Sacred Heart (P.R.)
#37	16	Hardin-Simmons	7-0	IDLE
#38	14	Transylvania	6-0	12/17 vs. Bluffton
#39	9	Texas-Dallas	6-1	12/16 at University of the Ozarks
#40	8	UW-River Falls	7-2	def. UW-Stout, 72-52; 12/17 vs. North Central (Minn.)
#41	7	Rose-Hulman	7-1	12/15 vs. Eureka; 12/17 at Hanover
#42	5	Hobart	6-1	IDLE
#43	4	New Jersey City	8-1	def. Lehman, 65-52; 12/17 vs. Nazareth
T#44	1	Hartwick	9-0	IDLE
T#44	1	Salem State	6-3	IDLE

[magicman]

#24 Oswego State improves to 9-1 with a 2nd half surge that carries them over Cazenovia 83-55. Nearly everyone gets into the act as 10 players score and average double minutes. 

Lakers now off until their trip to Texas to take on DI Texas-Pan American on January 3rd.

[magicman]

#21 Buffalo State called off the dogs and still managed to break the century mark as they down Keuka 108-78. Bengals improve to 7-1 and will take on the Capital Crusaders tomorrow afternoon at 4 PM in the championship game of the Coles Classic. Capital defeated Morrisville State earlier today 77-70.

[magicman]

#21 Buffalo State wins their Coles Classic tournament as they defeat Capital in overtime 81-78. Jake Simmons with 24 points to lead the Bengals.

[augie_superfan]

Jimmy (I mean Wade) Chitwood keeping Northwestern (MN) in the game with Whitowrth.  NW leads @ Whitworth 36-35 at halftime.

[magicman]

#8 Whitworth with a 3 pointer at the buzzer to beat Northwestern (Mn) 78-76.