Why I Built Mid-Major Hoops
September 20, 2026
College basketball has never had a shortage of information. Scores, rankings, advanced metrics, predictions, schedules and team statistics are everywhere.
The problem is that they are usually everywhere separately.
I created Mid-Major Hoops because I wanted one place where I could quickly understand what matters in college basketball that day—not just who is ranked, but why teams are good, which games deserve attention, what the numbers say about a matchup, and what happened that conventional rankings or records might miss.
And I wanted that coverage to extend beyond the same handful of national programs that dominate most college basketball conversations.
The Rest of College Basketball Matters
The name is Mid-Major Hoops, but the goal isn't to ignore the major conferences.
It's to give more attention to the enormous part of college basketball that often doesn't get enough of it.
There are more than 360 Division I teams. Every night there are great teams, important conference races, difficult road environments, breakout players and significant wins happening well outside the national spotlight.
MMH is being built to help find them.
The site will cover the entire Division I landscape while putting a particular emphasis on teams, conferences and performances that can easily get lost in the noise.
Numbers With Context
I'm a numbers person.
But statistics are most useful when they help explain something.
That's why MMH isn't intended to simply display a wall of data. The goal is to use advanced statistics to answer useful basketball questions:
Who is actually playing well? Which teams are better than their record suggests? Where do two teams have meaningful matchup advantages? Which win was the most impressive of the night? Which result was genuinely surprising based on what we knew before the game? And which games should you be paying attention to tonight?
Those ideas are behind features such as the MMH Power Index, Team Ratings, Game Previews, Game to Watch, Best Performances, Top Upset and The Board.
The Model Has to Keep Score Too
One principle was important to me from the beginning:
If MMH is going to publish predictions, the predictions should be accountable.
It's easy to build a model that looks impressive when you only highlight the calls that worked.
I don't want to do that.
MMH freezes its pregame predictions and grades them after the games are played. Over time, the site should create a real record of what the model gets right, what it gets wrong and where it needs to improve.
The model isn't supposed to be treated as an oracle. It's another way to examine a game.
Sometimes it will agree with conventional wisdom.
Sometimes it won't.
The interesting part is understanding why.
Built to Become a Daily Habit
The long-term idea behind Mid-Major Hoops is simple:
I want it to become a site that a college basketball fan can check every day during the season.
Open it in the morning and see what happened last night. Check the rankings and team pages. See the games that matter today. Read previews before tipoff. Come back later and see how the predictions performed.
Over time, I also want MMH to include deeper conference previews, player statistics, team analysis and additional tools for understanding the season as it develops.
The site you see today is the beginning of that.
Why Build It?
Mostly because it's the college basketball site I wanted to use myself.
One place for the numbers. One place for the games. One place for the teams that deserve more attention.
And a model willing to keep score of itself.
Welcome to Mid-Major Hoops.
The rest of college basketball starts here.