Every USC Hoops Team Ranked (1950-)

Based on the same formula used here.

1. 1971 19.28 Westphal
2.2001 16.53: Clancy, Scalabrine, Trepagnier(Lost in Elite 8)
3.2002 16.50: Clancy (Lost in NCAA)
4.2000 14.17: Clancy, Scalabrine, Trepagnier
5.2009 14.09: Gibson, DeRozan (Lost in second rnd)
6.2008 13.88: Mayo, Gibson (Lost in NCAA)
7.2007 13.78: Young, Gibson, Pruitt(Lost in Sweet 16)
8. 1975 13.63 Williams
9. 2016 13.52 Jovanovich (lost in NCAA)
10.1997 13.38: Rhodes (lost in NCAA)

11.1991 13.18: Miner, Pack, Cooper (lost in NCAA)
12.1992 12.93: Miner, Cooper (lost in second rnd)
13. 2018 12.89: Metu, Boatwright, McLaughlin
14. 1974 12.66 Williams
15. 1970 12.55 Westphal
16. 1951 11.96 Boyd
17. 1962 11.90
18. 1955 11.84
19. 1960 11.53
20. 2011 11.52: Vucevic (lost in NCAA)

21. 2020 11.51: Okongwu, Mathews, Rakocevic
22. 2017 11.48: Metu, Boatwright, Stewart (lost in second rnd)
23. 1968 11.38 Hewitt
24 1999 11.27: Clancy, Scalabrine, Trepagnier
25. 1961 11.26 Rudometkin
26. 1972 10.26
27.1982 10.19: Anderson (lost NCAA)
28. 1965 10.09
29. 1979 10.08 Robinson (lost NCAA)
30.2010 8.93: Vucevic, Lewis

31. 1953 8.89
32. 1973 8.84 Chapman, Williams
33. 1985 8.69 Carlander (lost NCAA)
34.1993 8.52 Glenn, Hackett
35. 2019 8.23 Boatwright, Rakocevic, Mathews
36.1969 7.80 Powell
37. 1963 7.55
38. 1954 7.54
39 .2006 7.44 Young, Pruitt
40 .2003 7.25: Farmer

41. 2013 6.31 Wise, Wesley
42. 1956 6.30
43.1981 5.97: Anderson
44. 1967 5.70 Hewitt, Jennings
45.1983 5.62 Carlander, Hill
46. 1966 5.43
47.1989 5.20: Cooper. Munk
48. 1978 4.87 Robinson, Smith
49.1990 4.79: Miner, Pack, Munk
50. 1976 4.77

51.2005 4.53: Pruitt
52.1994 4.45
53. 1964 4.43
54. 1995 4.0
55. 1952 3.37
56.1980 3.25 Miller
57. 1950 3.20
58. 2004 3.13 Farmer
59. 2014 2.6 Wesley
60.1986 2.60: Kimble

61. 1959 2.41
62. 1996 2.31 Boseman
63.1987 2.30: Munk
64. 1958 2.21
65. 2015 2.15 Jovanovic
66.1998 2.13: Trepagnier
67. 1977 1.26 White, Safford
68. 1957 .31
69. 1984 .15 Carlander, Holmes
70.2012 -.51: Jones

71.1988 -4.28: Cooper, Munk

NCAA Basketball Champions Ranked (1950-)

Ranked by College basketball reference SRS; their combination strength of schedule+pythagorean theorem formula for each team is listed.

1.1996 Kentucky 36.14
2. 1972 UCLA 33.79
3. 1968 UCLA 32.56
4.2001 Duke 32.19
5. 1967 UCLA 29.39
6.1993 North Carolina 29.04
7.2005 North Carolina 28.43
8. 1973 UCLA 27.98
9.1989 Michigan 27.63
10.2008 Kansas 26.89

11. 1969 UCLA 26.69
12. 2018 Villanova 26.64
13. 1976 Indiana 26.53
14. 1960 Ohio St 25.88
15. 2019 Virginia 25.46
16.2009 North Carolina 25.45
17.2010 Duke 25.21
18. 1974 NC St 25.05
19.2000 Michigan St. 25.04
20. 1970 UCLA 25.02

21. 2015 Duke 24.97
22.1991 Duke 24.9
23. 2013 Louisville 24.81
24. 2017 North Carolina 24.8
25.1992 Duke 24.8
26.1999 UConn 24.74
27.2012 Kentucky 24.73
28.1990 UNLV 24.45
29. 2016 Villanova 24.08
30.1994 Arkansas 23.88

31.2007 Florida 23.74
32.1995 UCLA 23.74
33.2002 Maryland 23.55
34. 1951 Kentucky 22.97
35.1998 Kentucky 22.95
36.   1962 Cincinnati 22.85
37.2004 UConn 22.62
38.  1979 Michigan St 22.53
39. 1964 UCLA 22.51
40.1997 Arizona 21.60

41. 1963 Loyola 21.43
42. 1965 UCLA 21.33
43.1981 Indiana 21.18
44. 1978 Kentucky 21.11
45.1975 UCLA 21.07
46.1955 San Francisco 21.00
47. 1971 UCLA 20.91
48.1987 Indiana 20.69
49.1986 Louisville 20.64
50.2006 Florida 20.21

51.1982 North Carolina 20.17
52. 1953 Indiana 19.98
53.2003 Syracuse 19.01
54. 1961 Cincinnati 18.80
55.1984 Georgetown 18.75
56 1956 San Francisco 18.14
57.2011 UConn 17.95
58. 2014 UConn 17.23
59. 1977 Marquette 16.77
60. 1958 Kentucky 15.95

61. 1952 Kansas 15.83
62.1988 Kansas 15.71
63.1980 Louisville 15.57
64.1983 NC St. 15.22
65. 1959 Cal 14.77
66. 1954 LaSalle 14.72
67. 1957 North Carolina 14.70
68. 1950 CCNY 14.67
69. 1966 UTEP 13.86
70. 1985 Villanova 11.99

The Weekly Tendown May 13-19 2012 (Quizdown)

Dear Internet:

Presumably this was O'Reilly's last Fox broadcast.

127 is here. This is Tendown 128

1. How Long Was 89 Year Old John Paul Stevens's Dissent in Citizens United?
Answer: 90 pages.

Stevens’s conclusion was despairing. “At bottom, the Court’s opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt,” he wrote. “It is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.”

2. What Should You Do if Your Neighbor Has a Statue of Buddha?
Answer: Destroy it.


3. Who Didn't Have Teeth Until She Was 11 Years Old?
Answer: Charlize Theron


4. Sports Betting is a Trillion Dollar a Year Industry - 70% is Bet on_____________?
Answer - Soccer.


5. What Did Chael Sonnen Win This Week?
Answer: The Smack Off


6. What Can You Buy At Auction?
Answer - Lawrence Taylor's last Super Bowl ring.


7. Who Is the Most Dominant Competitor of 2012?


Answer - The Newest Survivor Winner, Kim.

8. What 4 Star Wrestling Matches did Jividen See This Week?




Answer - 2 from TNA's PPV, Angle v. AJ and Roode v. RVD

9. We're A Quarter of the Way Through the MLB Season, Has Jividen Posted The Current All-Star Rosters Yet?
Answer - Yup.

10. What Stand Up got a Profile Piece in New York Magazine?
Answer - Patrice O'Neal.

That's all for this time.  I'll be back next time.  If there is a next time...

Your pal,

Jim

At the Quarter Pole - MLB All Star Rosters

The Giants have played 40 games that means the MLB season is a quarter over; time for the first evaluation.

Let's over a brand new prediction for the postseason, my first since the season started.

AL East - Yankees

AL Central - Tigers

AL West - Rangers

WC1-Rays

WC2-Red Sox

NL East-Braves

NL Central-Reds

NL West-Dodgers

WC1-Phillies

WC2-Reds

Now the All-Star rosters.  Last year each league had 34 men, I'll decide they're doing that again this season.  That meant 20 position players and 10 pitchers.  When I do this at the 80 game mark (maybe the 60) I'll make sure each team gets a rep and I'll include 4 closers for each team, even though some will be undeserving of the slots. 

AL

C Wieters

    Santana

1B Konerko

     Gonzalez

2B Johnson

     Pedroia

     Kipnis

SS Cabrera

      Hardy

      Andrus

3B Lawrie

     Hannahan

     Moustakas

LF Willingham

      Joyce

CF Hamilton (MVP)

      Jackson

      Jones

RF Reddick

DH Ortiz

P Verlander (CY)

    Weaver

    Peavy

    Lowe

    Price

    Hernandez

    Sabathia

    McCarthy

    Darvish

    Vargas

    Hammel

    Rodney

    JJohnson

    Strop

NL

C Ruiz

    Ellis

1B Votto

      LaRoche

      LaHair

2B Infante

      Barney

SS Furcal

     Castro

     Lowrie

3B Wright (MVP)

      Headley

LF Braun

      Prado

      Cabrera 

CF Kemp

      Bourn

      McCutcheon

RF Beltran

      Bruce

P Beachy (CY)

   Hamels

   Zambrano

   Cueto

   Lynn

   Cain

   Gonzalez

   Kershaw

   Bumgarner

   Greinke

   Strasburg

   Halladay

   McDonald

   Rodriguez

The Weekly Tendown: May 6-12 2012(The Eagle Has Landed)

Dear Internet:




We bought new phones this week.

I hung onto blackberry after everyone else had jumped ship; historically, I tend to remain after the evidence suggests I should walk. But this week I cut the cord.  I've got, as it turns out, a mysterious Verizon discount of which I was previously unaware, and between that, combining our two lines into a family plan, and our being grandfathered into unlimited data, we're spending a solid amount less than were we for lesser phones.

We'll see how it goes. I'll take whatever advice anyone cares to offer.

126 is here. This is 127.

1. Shep Smith
The gay marriage soundbite that was most surprising this week wasn't Obama's, it was Shep Smith on Fox.

He's right.  Conservatives stand opposed to the minimum wage and social security and medicare and unemployment insurance.  Conservatives stand opposed to legal equality for African-Americans and women.

And they lose - and they'll lose here too.  Every single conservative criticism of Obama's stance on gay marriage is the modern day equivalent of segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

Shep Smith told that to the Fox Flock this week.  He's right.

2. Yikes

The Nuggets losing in Game 7 to the Lakers is not nearly the worst thing that happened to Chris Anderson this week.

3. Dog Bites Man
Shockingly, the Republicans screwed the Democrats on that debt deal this week.

4. Do You Have a Couple Hours?
Watch this documentary on evolution vs. intelligent design.

5. Romney Economics


Romney plans to increase military spending by 2 trillion dollars.

6. The Cooler Me
If you're a longtime reader, you've probably hit upon my fascination with other versions of me; several years ago I discussed a book idea where I'd track down people who, for all demographic intents and purposes, were me when I was headed off to college to see the decisions they made that diverged their paths from mine; my proposed title was The Road Not Taken.


Well, this road not taken was that book - as instead I've spent the past several years working seven days a week.  But in the current GQ - someone's picked up that ball.

7. Would You Like to Download a Free, Really Good Book About the Constitution?
You're welcome.


The reason the United States Constitution is the world’s most enduring written constitution is not simply the genius of fifty-five men who met in Philadelphia in 1787. Rather, it is the way that generation after generation of Americans has made the Constitution ours. The Constitution endures because its meaning 
and application have been shaped by an ongoing process of interpretation. That 
process includes both judicial interpretation and transformations in constitutional 
understanding pressed by political leaders and ordinary citizens throughout our 
history. Our Constitution retains its vitality because it has proven adaptable to the 
changing conditions and evolving norms of our society. Its words and principles 
still resonate centuries after they were written because time and again, as Justice 
Holmes urged, we have interpreted the Constitution in light of “what this country 
has become.”


 Americans of all backgrounds can wholeheartedly take an oath to 
support and defend the Constitution when they are naturalized, join the armed 
forces, gain admission to the bar, or are sworn into elective office not because of 
how our founding text was understood in 1789, or even in 1870, but because of 
how we understand it today.


8. Don't Get Scammed
Consider this clip.


9. Oh, I Have News
My lady friend fixed my computer.  It required a total scrub of my hard drive; it had been...maybe 8-9 months since I backed everything up, so it's not ideal, but I didn't lose my really important stuff.

10. I Have Other News
I'm off the job market.

I'm moving to the university level, full time online position.  Solid salary bump.  Probably, it'll be awhile before I reference it in this space.  I spent a portion of virtually every day for about 8 months since I got adjuncted at my current place banging my head into the wall looking for a full time spot.  There are some negatives to the new position - they are outweighed.

So, to where should we move?

I have the ability to support the house entirely remotely.  My thought is we go someplace with a lower cost of living, hunker down, and live our lives.

I start in mid-June.  I won't miss a paycheck.

That's all for this time.  I'll be back next time.  If there is a next time....

Your pal,

Jim