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2015-16 Louisville Cardinals: A rough road, on the road
The Cards were much better in home games than on the road during the season. How did the guard rotation and shooting at the rim drive this? Read my analysis to find out...
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2015-16 Louisville Cardinals: A "What If?" season
Likely the best team to not make the NCAA Tournament in the modern era, the Cards were another in a line of Rick Pitino-coached title contenders until self-imposing a postseason ban
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2015-15 Kentucky Wildcats: The Loss
They had 40-0 in their sights, but an outstanding Wisconsin Badger team tripped them up in the Final Four.
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2014-15 Kentucky Wildcats: The Backcourt Rotation
Kentucky had 4 guards who all made the NBA. How did they balance the backcourt combinations, and which ones worked best?
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2014-15 Kentucky Wildcats Lineups: The Infamous "Platoons"
The coaching staff came into the season planning to platoon their top 10 players, but plans changed. How did the rotation choices impact the results on the court?
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2014-15 Kentucky Wildcats: Just Short of Perfection
They were the first team to reach 38-0, but ended 38-1 with a Final Four heartbreak.
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Introducing Hoops Hindsight
Telling the story of some great college basketball teams, through the numbers
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Going beyond the numbers to tell the story
Welcome to Hoops Hindsight by me, Sean Vinsel. In this newsletter I will attempt to tell the story of some of college basketball’s most interesting recent teams by diving into advanced stats that you may not be able to find anywhere else. I’ll take on one team at
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What can UK expect from Keion Brooks next season?
UK will rely on newcomers next season more than ever before. Only Keion Brooks has given us a glimpse of what he can achieve in a Wildcats uniform, and that was in only 15 minutes per game. We have to close our eyes and imagine pretty hard to get a
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How will UofL's freshmen improve as sophomores?
Louisville has only 3 players returning in 2020-21 who played meaningful roles on the 2019-20 team: David Johnson, Samuel Williamson, and Malik Williams. With all due respect to Williams, the players who likely have the most room to grow are Johnson and Williamson. The great Ken Pomeroy wrote an article
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Info on COVID-19, because that’s important right now
As I write this, I don’t know if any more college basketball games will be played this season. It doesn’t seem safe to be gathering lots of people together when we’ve got a disease that spreads like wildfire, hospitalizes up to 20% of victims, and is particularly
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What Makes a Bad Matchup For UofL?
When the college basketball seasons turns into elimination tournaments, I like to start looking closer at matchups. Specifically, what qualities make for a bad matchup for UofL? While good and bad matchups aren't the be-all, end-all, there is some usefulness in taking lessons from the season and applying