The Pac-12, a conference that has won more NCAA National Team Championships than any other conference in history, plans to make history again. On November 14, Washington will play Texas at the Mercedes Benz Arena in Shanghai, China, in a non-conference regular season game. It is the first regular season game played there by any […]
The Champion Duke Blue Devils might have gone into March Madness with one of the best starting five in the game and one of the greatest coaches of all time, but their success can also be attributed to some useful technology. STATS’s SportsVU is a system of six cameras and STATS proprietary software which calibrates […]
Amid the excitement of March Madness, the insatiable appetite by fans for these games continues to grow. Turner Sports has revealed that a record 54 million live video streams have been watched by fans during the NCAA Tournament’s first weekend. 11 million hours of which derived from its March Madness Live property. The uptick in […]
As the second day of the Elite 8 is upon us many traditional powers like Duke, Louisville, Michigan State and UCLA prepare to get one step closer to yet another Final Four appearance next weekend in Indianapolis. As all sports fans know, the difference between winning and losing a tournament game is razor thin and any edge you can achieve over your opponent is invaluable in the quest to stay alive in the single-elimination NCAA Tournament.
Big data and a March Madness bracket. Two distinctly, diametrically opposed conceptions–at least at first glance–that, now, invariably come together during this time of year. Searching these terms online leads to a plethora of results, ranging anything from gamblers, mathemagicians, or data scientists’ perspectives on predicting the Big Dance. The common action that users tend […]
