Though there are no actual games to be played, FiveThirtyEight is still taking a shot at a little March Madness. We built an NCAA Tournament bracket, using ESPN’s Bracketology, and we’ll be simulating the results of each game by using a simple “100-sided dice roll” against our forecast probabilities. Check back on Fridays and Mondays […]
Though there are no actual games to be played, FiveThirtyEight is still taking a shot at a little March Madness. We built an NCAA Tournament bracket, using ESPN’s Bracketology, and we’ll be simulating the results of each game by using a simple “100-sided dice roll” against our forecast probabilities. Check back on Fridays and Mondays […]
Guard Stella Johnson — the 5-foot-10 pride of Denville, New Jersey — wasn’t offered many scholarships ahead of her decision to play at Rider University. “Stony Brook did, but then they pulled it,” recalled Johnson, the leading scorer in women’s Division I college basketball this year and the darling of WNBA draft boards. “Hartford pulled […]
Geno Auriemma knows a few things about elite guards. He’s seen enough of Oregon’s Sabrina Ionescu to know that she qualifies. The Connecticut women’s basketball coach helped steer Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird and countless others through college and into the WNBA. So as Auriemma reckoned with one of Ionescu’s and the Ducks’ most impressive recent […]
Desiree Elmore, Seton Hall’s 5-foot-10 force of nature, is one of the best isolation players in all of women’s basketball, averaging a point per possession so far this season. Past Connecticut teams might have tried to stop someone like her with an on-ball defender: Geno Auriemma’s Huskies are typically among the top teams in the […]