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Did you see Jimi Hendrix in concert? Did you meet Jimi Hendrix or have the opportunity to interview him or have some other unique, first-person encounter with Jimi Hendrix? If so, Experience Hendrix wants to hear from you.
Jimi Hendrix jams with Graham Bond at the Record Plant in New York City. Hendrix records the jam, however due to extensive technical difficulties the poor quality of the surviving recordings has rendered the tape useless.
Melody Maker headlines the article, "Hendrix Tour Of Germany Postponed" as a result of the success the group continues to have back in America. The article goes on to state that 'Jimi has had a massive offer to appear on further dates in September during his new American tour which starts in Dallas on July 31. Included in the US itinerary is a concert at Hollywood's famed Bowl. Jimi is able to command $10,000 a day (over £3,000) and 60 per cent of the gate money on his American shows, which often bring him in as much as £10,000 for each date. He has only just completed an America tour, and the date at Woburn Abbey on Saturday evening is likely to be his only British appearance this year.' The Jimi Hendrix Experience is the featured artist at Melody Maker's Woburn Music Festival at Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire. Supporting acts include Shirley and Dolly Collins, Pentangle, Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band, T.Rex, The Family, New Formula and Little Women. The Experience's set consists of "Foxy Lady," "Stone Free," "Purple Haze" and "Wild Thing" among others.
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After Jimi and Mitch arrive in Palma, Majorca, Spain the group is scheduled to open the new Sergeant Pepper's night club, which is the latest venture managed by Chas Chandler and Michael Jeffrey. Although their appearance is an unofficial Experience gig, they perform "Hey Joe," "Burning of the Midnight Lamp," "Purple Haze," "The Wind Cries Mary," and "Wild Thing." Jimi and I swapped instruments, explains Noel Redding in his diary. At the end of "Wild Thing," Jimi raised his guitar towards the dropped ceiling and it went straight through the flimsy material. So he left it swinging there and the crowd roared."
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Jimi, Mitch and Noel are joined on stage by Neil Landon and Jim Leverton to perform a number of classic rock'n'roll songs including "Lucille" and "Johnny B. Goode." Noel Redding notes, "I think it was the only time anyone ever did vocals with us. Are You Experienced Inc., the group's new business firm is legally formed in the city of New York.
The Experience travel from Los Angeles to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to begin their new American tour. They kick off the tour with two performances, supported by Soft Machine in the Independence Hall at the Lakeshore Auditorium.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland >> Authorities say Belfast actor J.J. Murphy has died days after starting his new role on the HBO series "Game of Thrones."
No cause of death was given for the 86-year-old, who worked for decades on the Belfast stage. Murphy was cast to portray Ser Denys Mallister, the oldest member of the Night's Watch military order, and started filming scenes last week. He died Friday at his home.
HBO declined to say whether Murphy's role will be recast or if planned scenes involving Mallister will be rewritten. Much of "Game of Thrones" is filmed in Northern Ireland and local actors feature prominently in the cast.
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(Nanowerk News) Drivers in the San Francisco Bay Area have become the first motorists in the nation to fill up their gas tanks with an algae-based biofuel. | |
The fuel, known as Biodiesel B20, went on sale Tuesday at gas stations in Berkeley, Oakland, Redwood City and San Jose as part of a month-long pilot program, according to the San Francisco Chronicle (http://bit.ly/TIbSSH ). | |
Biodiesel B20 is made from 20 percent algae and 80 percent petroleum, and can be used by any vehicle that runs on diesel. Advocates say it is the first in a wave of clean fuel to hit the marketplace. | |
"We are putting a stake in the ground," said Matt Horton, chief executive officer of Propel Fuels, as he prepared to fill the first tank with the algae-based product at a Valero station in Redwood City. "We hope to build hundreds of stations like this in California." | |
The fuel's algae was grown by South San Francisco-based Solazyme Inc. and already has been used in trials by the military and industrial companies. | |
It was sold for about $4.25 a gallon at the Redwood City station, about the same as the average price for diesel fuel in California. | |
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Leveraged loans are delivering the smallest returns at the start of a year since 2008 as the Federal Reserve and other regulators warn that the $561 billion market may have become too frothy.
Speculative-grade loans have gained 2.1 percent in 2013, compared with an average of 5.6 percent in the same period the last four years, according to the Standard & Poor's/LSTA U.S. Leveraged Loan 100 Index. JPMorgan Chase & Co. is forecasting the debt will return from 5 percent to 6 percent in 2013, or about half the gains seen last year.
The slowdown may signal that investors are heeding the concern expressed by the Fed that money for the neediest borrowers is too easy even though default rates are below the historical average. Investors are pushing back on terms of some deals, demanding that Blackstone Group LP-owned Apria Healthcare Group Inc. pay more for a $750 million loan it's seeking.
"An investor shouldn't expect to earn what they earned last year because we started with a different set of initial conditions," Beth MacLean, a money manager at Newport Beach, California-based Pacific Investment Management Co., said in a telephone interview. "This year you don't have the capital appreciation upside and it's really more of a coupon clipping year."
Loan Rates
The interest rate paid on loans bought by non-bank lenders was 3.95 percentage points more than lending benchmarks on March 21, rising from a more than four-year low of 3.78 percentage points in February and headed for the first monthly increase since November, according to S&P's Capital IQ Leveraged Commentary & Data. The so-called margin has narrowed from last year's high of 5.15 percentage points in June.
The price of leveraged loans has risen to the highest level in almost six years, increasing more than 2 cents from year-end to 98.31 cents on the dollar yesterday, according to the S&P/LSTA U.S. Leveraged Loan 100 index. Loans climbed more than 5 cents on the dollar in 2012, finishing the year at 96.09 cents, the biggest annual jump since 2009.
As investor demand rises, companies are issuing the debt with fewer safeguards at a record pace. About $82 billion of so-called covenant-light loans have been raised this year, approaching the $87 billion during all of last year and the peak of $97 billion in 2007, according to S&P Capital IQ LCD.
Regulatory Concern
Prudent underwriting practices have deteriorated with the inclusion of covenant-light transactions and less-than satisfactory risk management practices, according to guidance on March 21 from the Fed, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Elsewhere in credit markets, bonds of LyondellBasell Industries NV climbed after S&P raised the credit ratings of the largest polypropylene producer from junk. Frontier Communications Corp. sold $750 million of bonds in a boosted offering. OSX Brasil SA, the shipbuilder controlled by Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista, shelved plans to sell overseas bonds as securities from his companies tumble.
The Markit CDX North American Investment Grade Index, a credit-default swaps benchmark that investors use to hedge against losses or to speculate on creditworthiness, rose 2 basis points to 92.5 basis points, the highest since a new version of the index started trading March 20, according to prices compiled by Bloomberg.
In London, the Markit iTraxx Europe Index of 125 companies with investment-grade ratings jumped 6.3 to 129.1.
Both indexes, new versions of which are created every six months, typically rise as investor confidence deteriorates and fall as it improves. The contracts pay the buyer face value if a borrower fails to meet its obligations, less the value of the defaulted debt. A basis point equals $1,000 annually on a contract protecting $10 million of debt.
BofA Bonds
Bonds of Charlotte, North Carolina-based Bank of America Corp. were the most actively traded dollar-denominated corporate securities by dealers yesterday, accounting for 4 percent of the volume of dealer trades of $1 million or more, according to Trace, the bond-price reporting system of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
LyondellBasell's $2 billion of 5 percent notes due April 2019 rose 1.3 cents to 112.7 cents to yield 2.7 percent, Trace data show. The company's $998 million of 6 percent securities due 2021 rose 1.8 cents to 118.3 to yield 3.5 percent.
S&P raised its rating on the Rotterdam-based chemical maker's unsecured notes to BBB- from BB+, according to a statement yesterday. Speculative-grade, or junk, debt is rated below Baa3 by Moody's and less than BBB- at S&P.
Frontier Sale
Frontier, a provider of phone, Internet and television, sold the 7.625 percent notes due in 2024 in its first offering in more than seven months, Bloomberg data show. The transaction earlier was marketed for $500 million. Proceeds will be used to fund a tender for its March 2015 and April 2015 notes, the Stamford, Connecticut-based company said yesterday in a filing.
In emerging markets, relative yields widened 6 basis points to 307 basis points, or 3.07 percentage points, according to JPMorgan's EMBI Global index. The measure has climbed from 265.8 at year-end.
OSX originally planned to sell $265 million of one-year secured bonds in a transaction managed by Pareto Securities, a person familiar with the offering who declined to be identified because terms weren't set said March 15.
Shares and bonds issued by Batista-controlled companies have been falling on concern that the businesses are losing access to financing needed to carry out investment plans. Yields on OSX's $500 million of 9.25 percent secured bonds due 2015 have jumped 2.1 percentage points since March 19 to a record 10.75 percent, Bloomberg data show.
Default Rates
Moody's Investors Service estimates the U.S. speculative-grade default rate will "remain low," ending 2013 at 2.5 percent, down from 3.3 percent in February. The default rate went from 1.06 percent at the end of 2007 to a peak of 14.7 percent in October and November 2009, according to the ratings firm.
"Since defaults are so low, even if spreads have tightened, the excess spread that you get over your default expectations is higher than it was pre-crisis," Pimco's MacLean said. "On a relative value basis, there are very few places where investors can get a decent current coupon."
Loan Issuance
Borrowers obtained $182.7 billion in loans this year from non-bank lenders, more than half of what was issued in all of 2012, according to JPMorgan. About 47 percent of these loans were used to reduce borrowing costs.
Financings include a $500 million covenant-light loan backing Apollo Global Management LLC and C. Dean Metropoulos & Co.'s purchase of Hostess Brands Inc.'s snack-cake business and a $1.16 billion debt for drugstore chain Rite-Aid Corp., Bloomberg data show.
"The balance is clearly tipped into the favor of the issuers today," MacLean said, adding that Pimco, the manager of the world's largest bond fund, has participated in less than half of newly issued and refinanced loans this year. "We are letting some of the re-pricings go that don't make sense, and some of the new issues that are more aggressive we'll pass on," she said.
Blackstone's Apria
Blackstone's Apria Healthcare, based in Lake Forest, California, raised the rate it's willing to pay on its loan by as much as 1 percentage point from its original proposal to attract investors earlier this month.
The provider of home healthcare products and services in the U.S. is now offering to pay 5.25 percentage points to 5.5 percentage points more than the London interbank offered rate, up from 4.5 percentage points initially proposed, according to a person with knowledge of the matter who asked not to be identified because the terms are private.
Officials at the Fed, whose asset purchase program and low interest rate policy was put into place to rescue the U.S. economy and get credit flowing again, are now expressing concern that debt yields near record lows aren't compensating investors for their risk.
It's "unrealistic" to expect loan returns this year will be as strong as last because the rise in loan prices that drove 2012 gains won't be matched, Scott Baskind, a New York-based senior money manager for Invesco Ltd.'s bank loan group, said in a telephone interview. The coupon will be the largest component to returns in 2013, he said.
Investors poured $1.4 billion into U.S. funds last week that buy leveraged loans, the second-biggest inflow after the record $1.5 billion during the second week of February, according to Bank of America Corp.
Loan Yields
Leveraged loan yields fell to a record 5.61 percent on March 26, according to JPMorgan index data. The yield-to-worst, or the lowest potential yield received without a default, on U.S. junk bonds declined to 5.61 percent on March 26, compared with the record-low of 5.6 percent on Jan. 25, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes.
"If it's a nine-inning baseball game and a sustained move higher in the default rate represents the ninth inning, then we're probably in the fourth/fifth inning," JPMorgan analysts led by Peter Acciavatti wrote in March 22 research report. "While the peak in credit quality is behind us, it doesn't mean conditions have rapidly declined."
Investors in loans have more downside protection than bonds as they are paid first in bankruptcy or liquidation, while offering a hedge against inflation because the coupon on the debt is tied to a floating-rate benchmark.
"The loan market is a place to capture, and protect against, a rising rate environment," said Invesco's Baskind. Loans offer "very similar, comparable yields" to junk bonds with less credit risk.
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Overview | What Is the Scientific Evidence for the Vega Test? | References
An unconventional device called the Vega-test machine is promoted by some alternative medicine practitioners for diagnosing illnesses and determining appropriate treatments. Other names for this approach include electrodermal testing (EDT) and electroacupuncture according to Voll (EAV). The method, which has many variations, generally involves measuring the body's electrical resistance at acupuncture points. Possible allergens or toxins, or prospective treatments, are placed within a device called a honeycomb that is said to test the effects of that substance on the body. More recent devices use a computer that supposedly simulates the presence of test substances.
There is no obvious commonly accepted scientific basis for the use of this method. To the limited extent that it has been tested, it has not proven itself a valid diagnostic technique.
Four Vega-test practitioners, each with at least 10 years experience, agreed to participate in a study conducted by a proponent of EDT testing.1 Thirty people volunteered to participate as patients. Half the volunteers had known allergies to house dust mites or cat dander (as determined by skin testing), while the others were not allergic to these allergens. Each participant was tested with six items in three separate sessions by each of three different operators of the Vega machine, resulting in a total of more than 1,500 separate allergy tests over the course of the study. The results showed that the Vega-test practitioners were unable to distinguish between allergic and non-allergic participants. In addition, no individual operator of the machine was more accurate than any other.
In another study, the Vega test failed to distinguish between people with respiratory allergies to a defined set of substances and those without them.2
One smaller double-blind study did find the Vega test capable of distinguishing between allergens and non-allergens.3 However, one of the authors of this study felt that it suffered from significant flaws, and went on to conduct the first trial discussed above.
On the basis of this information, the only fair assessment at present is that the Vega test has not been shown to be a meaningful method of identifying allergies to dust mites or cat dander. Proponents of the Vega device and other EDT techniques object that identifying respiratory allergens is not the device's primary use. However, at present there is no reliable evidence that the method has validity for any use.
1. Lewith GT, Kenyon JN, Broomfield J, et al. Is electrodermal testing as effective as skin prick tests for diagnosing allergies? A double blind, randomised block design study. BMJ. 2001;322:131-134.
2. Semizzi M, Senna G, Crivellaro M, et al. A double-blind, placebo-controlled study on the diagnostic accuracy of an electrodermal test in allergic subjects. Clin Exp Allergy. 2002;32:928-932.
3. Krop J, Lewith GT, Gziut W, A double blind, randomized, controlled investigation of electrodermal testing in the diagnosis of allergies. J Altern Complement Med. 1997;3:241-248.
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Welcome to Baseball Prospectus' Thursday March 20, 2008 12:00 PM ET chat session with John Gasaway (Basketball).
John Gasaway has been covering NCAA hoops all year long. Today, he stops by to chat during the first set of games in the NCAA tournament.
John Gasaway (Basketball): Yo, hoops nation! At last its here. It is The Tournament, driving U.S. office productivity down to borderline French levels since at least the mid-90s. Over the next couple hours Im going to add my small mite to the unrivalled might of the Tournament and together well make dang sure you get absolutely no work done. Were here to talk hoops and its all still in front of us. By Godfrey, I do love it so. Lets tip it off! Whats on your mind?...
Mark C (California): Which team not named UCLA has the best chance to make a deep run in the NCAA tournament?
John Gasaway (Basketball): That would be last year's vanquished Bruin foe, Kansas.
packerfan0042001 (tampa): who's in your final four?
John Gasaway (Basketball): Why, I thought that was a matter of public record: http://www.basketballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=261
Tony Painyas (Detroit ): Pitt ranks 57th in defensive efficiency, which seemingly contradicts their stout defensive play in the Big East tourney. Which D will Pitt bring to the dance this week? Speaking of contradictions, which MSU Spartan team shows up - the one that turns the ball over and can't make a shot or the team that smacked Texas around and blew out Indiana by 30?
John Gasaway (Basketball): Believe that "57," Tony. Before the Big East tournament there was the conference season, where the Panthers did indeed struggle on D. They do, however, score points, especially of late with Levance Fields back in the lineup. (For one thing, they commit fewer turnovers with Fields on the floor.) As for MSU, their offense was second only to Texas A&M's in game-to-game inconsistency this season. They can beat anyone (cf. Texas) but anyone can beat them (see: at Iowa). I'm keeping one eye on the Spartans and Temple, set to tip in a few minutes here.
Or (Dallas): UTA all the way! Am I right?
John Gasaway (Basketball): Finally! Someone recognizes all the hard work and dedication of the Utah Transit Authority. You bet, I say UTA all the way! from Gallivan Plaza to the Sandy Expo Station! Unless of course you were referring to Texas-Arlington. That's another matter. In other news, the tournament is about to begin. I'm seeing Greg, Clark, and Seth even as I type. O, the joy.
Paul (San Francisco): I like all the efficiency stats for conference games. However, is there some calculation to take into consideration the varying quality levels of the conferences? I would think there should be some kind of adjustment, right? Thanks.
John Gasaway (Basketball): My redoubtable colleague Mr. Pomeroy has all the schedule-adjusted goodies. In addition, I like to look at the raw info--then you and I can make our own inferences. What's better? An efficiency margin of 0.24 in the Big 12 (Kansas) or a 0.17 in the Pac-10 (UCLA)? I also like the purely reportorial function these numbers carry: that's what you actually saw this year when you watched the games. The Jayhawks really did score 1.16 points per trip and they really did give up 0.92. You can math those numbers up from there, of course, but that's what transpired between the lines. Good to know.
AllanShuldiner (Long Beach, CA): Im confused about coaching decisions when a key player gets in foul trouble. Picking up fouls is somewhat random, as one does not know when the player will pick up their next foul. It seems that the best way to win is to maximize the key players time on the court, while giving him enough rest to remain effective. When the key player picks up a 2nd/3rd foul early in the game, the coach will bench him, and reinsert him later, hoping the player can go the rest of the way without fouling out. Sometimes that player does not foul out, and that player could have played additional minutes. Does the reward of guaranteeing that key player available at the end (as opposed to just potentially available) outweigh the definite drawback of having the player play fewer minutes?
John Gasaway (Basketball): Yeah, the two-foul first-half automatic benching has often struck me as one of the last remaining shreds of unreconstructed superstition in hoops. Note for instance the belief that it's somehow catastrophic if a player picks up his third foul before halftime. Foul trouble's not a good thing, don't get me wrong, but in a 40-minute game what earthly difference does it make if that third foul comes in the 19th minute of play or the 21st? Caveat: when a player's in foul trouble the other team does tend to start jumping in to him. Still, assuming we're talking about a star here, I'd like to see more coaches just go zone and tell their player: don't charge.
Steve (North Dakota): Hey John. In the NCAA tourney previews, Kansas State is listed as having a better than expected chance of winning their region. How much of that is directly attributable to Michael Beasley?
John Gasaway (Basketball): I would say 98.43 percent. No, wait, make that 98.41. Anyway, one could make a case that no team in the country had a better month than the Wildcats did in January. That month and that player are why their numbers still look so good, even after a swoon in February and, so far, March. The concern for K-State is outside Mr. Beasley's area of responsibility: the men from Manhattan comprised the Big 12's worst perimeter defense in conference play. In other news, Xavier 5, Georgia 2.
tycobb (ga): how many points does georgia win by?
John Gasaway (Basketball): Cool. The first question where real-time events are of some use. I need to look into this a little more deeply (i.e., for the first time) but my memory is that big underdogs who've gone on magical runs in their conference tourneys don't do real well in the NCAAs. Certainly that was the case with Syracuse in '06 and Iowa in '01. That being said, Xavier has to be thinking: this is what we get for a 14-seed? Xavier 8, Georgia 4.
Jacob (Montreal): Who are your favorite and least favorite broadcasters? (I know you don't like Packer, so you can name someone else if you want)
John Gasaway (Basketball): I like the Sean McDonough, Bill Raftery, Jay Bilas team a lot. Rick Majerus as an announcer wasn't everyone's cup of tea but I really liked him--I'd even watch games I wouldn't otherwise choose just because he was announcing. The thing with Packer is that it's impossible to view him apart from the incredible J. Edgar Hoover-length hammerlock he's had on the most coveted announcing gig in college hoops. I find that when I run across him doing ACC games on Jefferson Pilot, I don't find him nearly as maddening.
jphan44 (nyc): john what are your thoughts on arizona, i think with everyone healthy they have the talent to make a deep run but they didn't play well down the stretch
John Gasaway (Basketball): Absolutely they have talent and Bayless is amazing. But it's striking how lifeless both the teams suffering from coaching drama--AZ and Indiana--have looked the past couple weeks. Yes, Michigan in 1989 is always cited here as the counter-example. Then again that was almost 20 years ago.
Owen (NJ): Should St. Joe's survive Oklahoma, what's the blueprint for how they'd beat Louisville?
John Gasaway (Basketball): Make your threes and make the Cards miss theirs. (Louisville does shoot a lot of threes but they made less than 34 percent in-conf.) Also note that a zone shouldn't hurt you too much against the 'Ville on your defensive glass, since the Cardinals don't really go for offensive boards anyway. Pitino's team is so tough on D, I just can't see St. Joe's winning this game inside the arc. Then again I said the same thing about George Mason against UConn in '06.
TGisriel (Baltimore): Do you have any favorite nuggets of information for each of the #1 seeds?
John Gasaway (Basketball): Hmm, "nuggets of information." Let's see.... Kansas: scarily balanced. Outstanding on both offense and defense and pretty much everyone contributes something to both. North Carolina: Talented and fast but disciplined. Williams put those qualitites together at Kansas and he's done it in Chapel Hill. Memphis: I love what Calipari does with Dorsey within the DDM offense: Joey, just worry about offensive boards. So simple yet so innovative. UCLA: They've chosen to attack the offensive glass this year (something of a heresy for a good defensive team). And it's worked.
B Stevens (Indy): Your ratings, applied to a bracket, come out pretty chalk. Is there anything in your statistics, such as a mismatch in tempo, that helps predict when your ratings are going to be upset?
John Gasaway (Basketball): Yo, yo, Indy neighbor. Just common sense, I guess. To return to Kansas State for a second, they look beautiful on paper largely because of their January. Well, it ain't January anymore. For my part, I use things like efficiency margins as supplements and not subsitutes for my eyes.
jphan44 (nyc): tennesse or north carolina? that was the hardest game to pick for me in the bracket
John Gasaway (Basketball): Oy, that would be fun to watch. You know, it could be like the game Ohio State played in Chapel Hill in November of '06, a game where neither team's afraid to get out and go. The thing that would concern me as a Volunteer fan would be Tennessee's excellent perimeter D and mediocre defensive rebounding. Because UNC doesn't shoot threes and they are outstanding on the offensive glass.
Mark (Milwaukee): Can Marquette get to next weekend? The twin towers at Stanford concern me (if MU is even able to beat Kentucky).
John Gasaway (Basketball): Yeah, when I first saw the bracket I thought it was kind of brutal to Tom Crean. One would think that outscoring Big East opponents by 0.08 points a trip would net you a better reward in the second-round than 14 feet of the Lopez family. Then again, Stanford fans, at least the ones that email me, tend to be leery of small quick teams. Teams like Marquette. First things first, though. Get that far.
Sick Guy (Madison): John, there seems to be a lot of love amongst the talking heads about USC... talk some sense, man, UW is gonna be in the sweet 16, right? Right??
John Gasaway (Basketball): Yeah, the piece I did on the "Amy Winehouse factor" had SC front and center. Basically, no other major-conference team was so erratic on both sides of the ball. The Trojans' offense and their defense both showed mad wacky variation from game to game. Meaning you can understand the love amongst the talking heads--they're remembering the peaks (e.g., winning at UCLA). There have also been valleys, however. Can a team that's so inconsistent really win three or more tournament games? Guess we'll see. As for the Badgers read on.... (At the half: Michigan St. 35, Temple 26.)
Edgedevan (Toronto): What's your opinion of Wisconsin? Ken Pomeroy chose them for his national champion, and they are ranked very highly by the tempo-independent measures. I wonder if they have enough depth to make a long run, something that might not have hurt them in the Big Ten as much. Do you think they have what it takes?
John Gasaway (Basketball): My opinion of Wisconsin is two-fold: 1. They are consistently and systematically underrated by our eyes. A lot of their defense comes from defensive rebounding and a lack of foul calls. A lot of their offense comes from a lack of turnovers. None of the above make one go, "Wow, great play!" when you see it in real time. 2. They have been less successful against quick teams. The win at Texas is the spectacular exception to this rule. Past that there was the loss at Duke, the loss at home to Marquette, and two losses to Purdue. As for Ken choosing the Badgers to win it all, I was there when he made his choice. Don't tell him you got this from me but he threw a dart at a bracket, blindfolded. He almost had Cal State-Fullerton going all the way.
Brian H (Toledo): To what would you attribute Michigan State's schizophrenia (on again, off again) -- or perhaps its failure to consolidate as the season went on after beating Texas and coming so close with UCLA? It's easy to point out turnovers, etc., but they're schizo on that, too.
John Gasaway (Basketball): Truly, that is the 64 dollar question. If I knew how to make any team non-schizo I would be in high demand. (I know Tim Floyd would want my services.) You're right that it's not just turnovers. Their shooting's been highly inconsistent too. Tell you what, how 'bout I turn this question into a tease for the book? (The 2008-09 College Basketball Prospectus, by Ken and John. In stores October 28!). Inconsistency is something I've been planning to take a closer look at.
MarinerDan (san francisco): Are people making a mistake by assuming that Davidson is going to beat Gonzaga? Fear Heytvelt!
John Gasaway (Basketball): If people are making a mistake there it's because the country has a "Gonzaga" in its brain that doesn't necessarily jibe with current reality. The Zags play some D now. Austin Daye's an excellent dual threat on D: he blocks shots and he gets defensive boards. Pretty fair on offense, too--when he stays away from turnovers and out of foul trouble. OK, 15-minute warning. Get those questions in now, folks!
Jason (Columbus): Watching this X-Georgia game is unreal. Georgia is playing legitimately outstanding ball in all facets of the game. How uncommon is it for a BCS school (or any team, I suppose) to get what for lack of a better term I shall call a bug up their ass and play at a level so far above what we're accustomed to seeing?
John Gasaway (Basketball): This chat has now lasted long enough for me to have been proven wrong. Not that that takes a long time. Yup, the Bulldogs are up 10 with 15 to play. It is very uncommon, Jason. The crippling deficiency with Brown-less, Mercer-less pre-March 13 UGA was that they couldn't score. Then they go out and drop 97 on Ole Miss in the SEC tourney to get this whole roll started. They won by two and haven't looked back. Incredible.
X-Men (X-World): We're in a whole heap of trouble!
John Gasaway (Basketball): I don't know, it's getting tighter. (UGA 46, Xavier 40, 12 to go.) Here's the Bill James impregnable lead calculator: http://www.slate.com/id/2185975/ I'll be using this throughout the tournament.
fireorlime (Baltimore, MD): I have Mississippi State beating Memphis in the second round. Am I crazy?
John Gasaway (Basketball): Not at all. That could be a great game of strength on strength. The Tigers make their twos but Jarvis Varnado is a pretty good counter there.
Steve (North Dakota): Tell me you're just going to sit on your computer and chat all day. please.
John Gasaway (Basketball): Wouldn't it be nice. Nope. Gotta scoot in just a few minutes here. Couple more questions then we're done.
MarinerDan (san francisco): Can Washington State's Low/Weaver/Rochestie guard trio put a scare into North Carolina?
John Gasaway (Basketball): Speaking of strength on strength. The Cougars are the slowest-paced major conference tournament team in the brackets. They will make Carolina play half-court. I don't think that will freak out the Heels, necessarily, but it will definitely give them their opportunity to win slow, should the game come to pass. If it does come to pass, watch for lots of references in advance of that game to UNC's Elite Eight loss last year to slow-paced Georgetown. I'm not sure I'll buy the comparisons. The Hoyas were slow but they were also very large.
John Gasaway (Basketball): That'll do it for me, on this the best day of the sports year. Georgia's lead is down to four. Kansas is cruising. Michigan State is up by 18 on Temple. Off to take it all in. Happy brackets to all!
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