A blizzard of Crunchy Numbers
As my train to Boston makes its way north, I've spent the afternoon putting together a longer-than-usual stats compilation.
Corrected after nayr83 pointed out in the comments that La Salle at Temple wasn't an official Big 5 game. The official schedule is here, if you're wondering.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - For as much as I enjoy train travel, five hours is a long time to sit and look out the window. So as my train to Boston makes its way north, I've spent the afternoon putting together a longer-than-usual stats compilation.
In addition to the usual Schuylkill 16 data, you'll see teamsheet summaries for the top teams in all six BCS conferences (yes, the Pac-10 still counts), the Atlantic 10, the CAA and the Ivy League.
These numbers don't come close to painting a complete picture of the college basketball landscape, but they might make you think twice about which teams deserve at-large bids and which don't.
As for my whereabouts, I'll be at Princeton-Harvard tonight and Penn-Harvard tomorrow, covering the latter game for Sunday's Inquirer. I'll probably live-tweet Penn's game from courtside at Lavietes Pavilion, so stay tuned.
And for those of you keeping score, my streak of having never covered Wing Bowl is still alive. I'm sure it will end one of these years, but at least for now it continues.
Good luck dealing with the blizzard, especially those of you trying to get to Washington for Villanova-Georgetown tomorrow. At the moment, it looks like New England won't get hit as hard as the Mid-Atlantic.
But I'm sure that having typed those words, we'll be slammed right as I'm trying to leave town Sunday morning.
Let's start our rundown with some interesting tidbits about the City Six teams.
- Drexel is 275th nationally in effective field goal percentage and 15th in effective field goal percentage given up.
- La Salle is 285th in turnover percentage committed and 327th in turnover percentage forced.
- Penn is 320th in effective field goal percentage and 340th in effective field goal percentage given up.
- Saint Joseph's is 322nd in offensive rebounding percentage and 342nd in offensive rebounding percentage given up.
- Temple is 11th in turnover percentage committed and 257th in turnover percentage forced.
- Villanova is third in offensive effiency and 60th in defensive efficiency.
Now for the tables: