- Jamie Dixon needs only six more wins to set the all-time D-1 record for most wins by a coach in his first six years of coaching. Dixon has 156 wins in 5+ years at Pitt, after taking over for Ben Howland. The all-time record holder is Everett Case, who started coaching N.C. State in 1946, had 161 wins in first first six seasons. Roy Williams, who started at Kansas in 1988 and Mark Few, who started at Gonzaga in 1999, are currently second on this list, with 158 wins in their first six seasons.
- The St. Joe’s Hawks get fewer minutes from their bench than any other team in the country. And, last year, they were second in this category behind Pacific. It makes some sense, I guess, since the Hawks do not play an uptempo or pressing style and have a significant drop-off from starting lineup to backup players, but still, this has got to catch up to them, eventually, right? Ahmad Nivens (the Big Five’s best player this year, hands-down) is averaging about 39.5 minutes per game.
- UConn has the lowest fouls per game average in the country (12 per game). And, going into last night’s game. Hasheem Thabeet had been the only UConn player to foul out of a game and it only happened once. Which makes last night’s performance by Pitt even more impressive, as they forced 19 fouls by UConn, including Thabeet fouling out in 23 minutes and Kemba Walker fouling out in 24 minutes. I have a feeling that the injury to Jerome Dyson is going to be absolutely HUGE when we look back on this season.
- There is only one player in the history of baseball to have 200 home runs, 300 stolen bases, a .300 batting average, and a .400 on-base percentage. I’ll give you a couple hints as to who it is:
- He is among my all-time favorite Phillies
- He holds the record for most home runs in a home run derby
- And, most impressively, HE JUST SIGNED A FREE AGENT CONTRACT WORTH $5 MILLION FOR ONE YEAR!!!
- Yes, the Angels get the biggest steal of this crazy baseball off-season by signing Bobby Abreu for $5 million. You would think that, given the boldface fact above, that, on the free-agent market, a player of that caliber would command beaucoup bucks…I guess not in 2009.
Ridiculous…
I can’t help but think that I was a small part of getting that last fact posted. It’s tough to call the greatest home run hitter of all time “well rounded”, but you did a pretty good job of it.
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