Episode 347 - Evan Miya
The Devil's Den: A Duke Athletics Podcast · The Devils Den Podcast, Duke, Duke basketball, Duke athletics, Duke Blue Devils
January 23, 202629m 31s
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Show Notes
Josh and Raul are joined by Evan Miyakawa of evanmiya.com to delve into what his proprietary metrics can tell us about Duke Basketball and the college basketball landscape as a whole. Topics discussed include:
- The increasing embrace of analytics by college basketball coaches
- How to balance analytics with the eye test
- The value of analytics in portal scouting and roster construction
- Duke-specific lineup data
- How Jon Scheyer has been able to construct teams that maximize his star players
- The widening gap between the top teams in college basketball and the rest of the field
- The difficulty of developing stats to measure defense
- The stat most predictive of team success in March
- Whether it's easier or harder to win a championship in this current top-heavy era
- Evan's new podcast, The EvanMiya College Basketball Show
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