Nevada has a +148 scoring differential, topping opponents by 4.3 points per game. It is putting up 75.9 points per game to rank 174th in college basketball and is allowing 71.6 per outing to rank 115th in college basketball.
Illinois State outscores opponents by 6.7 points per game (scoring 75.1 per game to rank 197th in college basketball while allowing 68.4 per outing to rank 42nd in college basketball) and has a +214 scoring differential overall.
Bradley is outscoring opponents by 4.2 points per game with a +138 scoring differential overall. It puts up 77.6 points per game (133rd in college basketball) and gives up 73.4 per outing (166th in college basketball). The Braves score 7.7 more points than the Flyers concede (69.9).
New Mexico outscores opponents by 9.7 points per game (scoring 80.5 per game to rank 74th in college basketball while giving up 70.8 per outing to rank 93rd in college basketball) and has a +321 scoring differential overall.
It was my first year as a head coach, the 2000-2001 season. I'm the coach at Princeton University. Preseason, we were picked to finish seventh in an eight-team league-so next to last in the Ivy League. We'd lost our coach, we'd lost our top players to transfer, one player [Chris Young, now president of the Texas Rangers] was no longer eligible to play because he was drafted in baseball. We weren't expected to be good.
George Mason outscores opponents by 5.8 points per game (scoring 73.3 per game to rank 245th in college basketball while allowing 67.5 per outing to rank 35th in college basketball) and has a +187 scoring differential overall.
Long Island University was the first team to clinch a spot in the annual tournament. The Sharks did so by defeating Wagner in the NEC Tournament Semifinals. This was because their opponent in the championship game, Mercyhurst, is ineligible to compete in the NCAA Tournament. The Sharks earned their first spot in March Madness since combining their two campuses' athletic programs (Brooklyn and Post).
Oscar Cluff scored 21 points, Trey Kaufman-Renn had 20 and No. 18 Purdue topped No. 3 Michigan 80-72 on Sunday for the Big Ten tournament championship. Braden Smith had 14 points, 11 assists and three steals as Purdue (27-8) added to an impressive turnaround after closing the regular season with four losses in six games.
Michigan and Wisconsin battled back and forth all game, and it was a 3-pointer by Lendeborg with 0.4 seconds left that helped Michigan advance to the title game. The Wolverines were just 8/25 (32%) from deep, but it was enough to get the win. Michigan got its revenge on Wisconsin as the Badgers handed the Wolverines their only conference loss of the season.
Charleston (SC) averages 74.5 points per game (44th in college basketball) while giving up 58.1 per outing (33rd in college basketball). It has a +509 scoring differential overall and outscores opponents by 16.4 points per game. Barbot leads the Cougars, putting up 19.5 points per game (24th in the country).
