Simulating Conference Realignment in Men’s Basketball
By: Zachary Hass & Thomas Nielsen, Purdue University
At every season’s end there is inevitably a conversation about which men’s college basketball conference is the strongest. The “go to” evidence is often centered on how many teams from each conference made the NCAA tournament and how they fared. The emboldened fan will often claim something about how the third place team in their conference would have won any other league or about how poorly some other conference champ would have fared in their stronger conference. While these claims can never really be tested, examining conference realignment can offer a glimpse of how some teams stack up in new conferences.
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Introducing Our New Database Interface!
Our new look retains all the features and functionality that make Win AD the best data tool in college athletics, and reorganizes them for a sleeker, faster, and more efficient user experience.
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Win AD is thrilled to be participating in the first ever Michigan Sport Business Conference, sponsoring a panel there on Friday, November, 9th. We look forward to fantastic discussions about the business of athletics and on the conference’s theme, “The Changing Faces of Sports.” |
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He Tweeted What by Eric Bentley. An article concerning social media best practices for athletic programs.
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Dreaded Middles Seeds by Tracy Morris and Faryal Bokhari. A study of middle seeds, not necessarily the worst case scenario. Download PDF
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Division II College Football: Scheduling Games Against FCS Opponents
By: Jordan Sperber, Villanova University
With two of the winningest programs in NCAA college football history—Pittsburg State and Tuskegee—Division II college football offers an exciting accompaniment to the fervor of Division I each year. While FBS schools are no longer allowed to count victories against colleges below FCS for bowl eligibility, annually a few DII football schools quixotically take to the road against FCS teams.
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What Athletic Directors Need to Know: A Title IX & Title VII Primer
By: Jennifer A. Harper, Esq. - Jackson Lewis LLP.
Win AD recently participated in a panel, in conjunction with Title IX and Title VII expert Jennifer Harper of Jackson Lewis LLP, at the second annual Collegiate Athletic Leadership Symposium in Chapel Hill. That panel offered practical advice for the athletic directors and senior athletic administrators in attendance regarding Title IX and Tile VII. This article will examine those areas of equal opportunity law in greater detail and offer a list of best practices to prevent discrimination from occurring through effective training and education.
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Ask the AD: Five Questions for Athletic Director Jared Mosley
Abilene Christian University’s Jared Mosley, in his eighth year as Athletic Director, is navigating a move to the Southland Conference, as well as a jump from NCAA Division II to Division I. Jared was good enough to answer a few questions for Win AD about the move and his experience as an Athletic Director.
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Endowment Size vs. Athletic Spending
The relationship between a schools’ overall endowment and the amount they spend on athletics each year is tangential at best, but we thought it might be an interesting exercise to compare the two. Below are charts depicting the top ten smallest and largest athletic spending as a percentage of endowment numbers across Division 1-A.
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