Recent content by Citizen X

Hi all! So it's finally basketball season again. I hope the Bonnies win a lot of games, but I am prepared for an extended learning experience. I listened to the Alfred exhibition on WPIG via the internet. It sounds like we have four credible players and several more hoping to play an important...

I don't know why I am back here when it's nearly Memorial Day. I don't get worked up very much about the way things went with the starters leaving, but I will say I am glad they're gone for an entirely different reason than I have seen posted. That is that I am just sick of watching them. It has...

I have just got to keep reminding myself: "Kids gonna be kids and do stupid shit." I know not to try to figure them out. Most people couldn't have figured me out at that age either. I dropped out of Bona for a semester to take my chances with my Viet Nam era draft board at the height of the war...

I am trying my best to not give a shit about basketball, but I can't help being excited about this pick-up. Since I was a man without a country as far as the NCAA tourney was concerned, watching this kid's performance was my sole post-season joy aside from the Bona NIT run. It will be fun...

Nice article. I see that Mark spent a good deal of his time at BC on the bench. I suppose this has some bearing on his future substitution practices.

Television has made all these enormous athletic budgets possible, but there was something to be said for the innocent days when it was truly an amateur sport. Larry Weise was about 25 years old, a recent Bona grad, and probably felt like Daddy Warbucks if his first contract was for 15K a year. I...

On to MSG for the semifinal game against Xavier, one with interesting historical antecedents. Of course, all of us here would like to see a repeat of the 2012 A10 championship. For their part, the X fans are hoping for something on the order of the 1958 semifinal. I think 1958 was the only time...

Beautiful, just fucking beautiful! I'll admit that I didn't think the guys would be able to pull it off when they dropped behind by 5 points with about 2 minutes remaining. Five points in that game against the Cavalier defense seemed like a hill too high to climb. That final shot block by Osun...

We're verging on an academic discussion, which is the last thing we want. However, it's good to know that some highly significant academic research has been done in the subject. Anyone interested can get a taste of how deep this goes from the grand puba of fractals, Professor Benoit Mandelbrot...

Yes '03, I've got all that, but it highlights what I consider a shortcoming in Kenpom. I do not know the specifics of how he weights his various components, but FG% is obviously an important factor. It should be, but the fact that players and teams have good runs and bad runs doesn't seem to be...

The Bonnies are 3.5 point underdogs. It is getting to be a rather comical thing (because it no longer matters) to watch this team repeatedly win Quad 1 games on the road and watch the Kenpom rating barely change. We're #80 now, but Virginia doesn't get much respect either at #72. All these 8...

Ha! "And if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor!"

Sweet! The Bonnies take down their second P5 victim in enemy territory and now host recent national champ Cavaliers in the RC. Last team in the A10 that's keeping the flame alive.

It is the first day of spring and the Bonnies are still playing. Today's game at OK is a wonderful opportunity to get some national attention via ESPNU and provide some evidence of A10's bona fides. If your reference is Kenpom or the NET rankings, the Sooners have a distinct advantage (Bonnies'...

The win over the Buffaloes was a nice piece of basketball. The Bonnies are on a mission of redemption. Beating another P5 team on their home court would be a giant step, although it seems there is a scheduling glitch at Oklahoma. The NIT format has certain advantages. These first three games...