College Basketball Prospectus 2008-2009: The Essential Guide to the 2008 College Basketball Season by Ken Pomeroy, John Gasaway

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Synopsis

In the winning tradition of the New York Times bestselling Baseball Prospectus, the ultimate guide to college basketball.

From the brand that brought sports fans the New York Times bestselling Baseball Prospectus comes an all-new, one-of-akind, authoritative guide to college basketball. Utilizing the same unique prediction model, College Basketball Prospectus 2008-2009 applies objective knowledge, original hardhitting statistical analysis, and provocative writing to one of America's most popular sports.

Divided into three sections, the prospectus includes essays on various aspects of the college game and the past season, previews of all thirty-one Division-I conferences, and a statistical abstract with the same cutting-edge mathematical analysis that has yielded a winning record of accurate predictions for the Baseball and Pro Football Prospectus series. For the 60 million Americans who are diehard college basketball fans, College Basketball Prospectus 2008-2009 is a slam dunk.

Biography

Ken Pomeroy is routinely described on college hoop blogs as the Bill James of college basketball. Ken was a writer for ESPN.com and his work has been cited in Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. John Gasaway was the author of the Big Ten Wonk blog and has been cited by ESPN.com's Bill Simmons, SI.com's Grant Wahl, and MSNBC.com's Mike Miller as among the most influential in his field.