Conventional statistics are no longer enough for sports in the über-advanced twenty-first century. While it was once sufficient to track just batting average and home runs in baseball, analysts now turn to metrics like fielding independent pitching and batting average on balls in play to judge how well players are performing. Similarly, in basketball, player speed, […]
With the last weekend of March Madness quickly approaching the NCAA announced a partnership with Samsung, to live stream the Final Four and National Championship in Virtual Reality, for the first time ever. This announcement comes on the heels of Fox partnering with NextVR, which gave fans the opportunity to watch the Big East Tournament in VR. Get […]
Degree Deodorant is partnering with the NCAA to conduct a series of fan movement studies at the 2016 Final Four in Houston. A sponsor of the NCAA, Degree will use Lightwave, a new bio-analytics technology that examines everything from buzzer beater reaction to crowd unison movement of “The Wave”. “The energy at the Final Four […]
The University of Connecticut’s Women’s Division 1 basketball team is on the precipice of dominance that is rarely achieved in major college sports. While some question if this is good for the sport, UConn’s reign at the top might be more impressive than ever when considering the proliferation of the women’s game that greater access and […]
The Villanova Wildcats have breezed through their first three games of the NCAA Tournament this year. But now, in the Elite 8, they will have their biggest challenge yet when they face the Tournament’s #1 overall seed in the Kansas Jayhawks. While the Wildcats are clearly full of talented players this March Madness, the coaching […]
