NCAA Basketball Review

How to Make a Good Team

July 10th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized

In college basketball, it’s always hard to know whether you’re going to win a lot of games and have a shot at the championship. Like any other sport, there are always slightly different standards you have to meet in order to win. At the same time, most sports have a consistent set of things that you need. College basketball has this too. But in college levels, you can’t recruit as directly as you can in the pro leagues. College are limited by the people that they can rustle up from high schools and recruitment activities, under strict regulation. But one writer is putting together an interesting analysis of college basketball teams and players to see what kind of formula you could come up with to predict/create a national champion. The first thing that he has on his list is that the team will have at least 5 important scoring threats and score a lot of points per game.