{"id":828,"date":"2009-10-26T13:38:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T20:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/?p=828"},"modified":"2009-10-26T13:38:20","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T20:38:20","slug":"big-ten-geeks-preview-of-the-penn-state-09-10-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/pennstatehoops-com-has-ceased-operations\/big-ten-geeks-preview-of-the-penn-state-09-10-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Ten Geeks: Preview of the Penn State 09-10 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past two seasons, the win totals of Ed DeChellis&#8217; teams have exceeded what we would expect based on their play on the court.  And really, this has been a staple of the DeChellis Era:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\">\n<table id=\"rtob\" class=\"zeroBorder\" style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;font-size: 1em;line-height: inherit;border-collapse: collapse\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"text-align: left\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\"><strong>Season<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;text-align: center;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\"><strong>Actual Conf. Record<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;text-align: center;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\"><strong>Pythagorean Record<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;text-align: center;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\"><strong>Difference<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: left\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">08-09<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;text-align: center;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">10-8<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;text-align: center;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">7-11<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;text-align: center;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">+3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: left\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">07-08<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;text-align: center;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">7-11<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;text-align: center;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">4-14<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;text-align: center;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">+3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: left\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">06-07<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;text-align: center;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">2-14<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;text-align: center;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">3-13<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;text-align: center;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">-1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: left\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">05-06<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;text-align: center;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">6-10<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;text-align: center;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">5-13<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;text-align: center;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">+1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: left\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">04-05<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;text-align: center;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">1-15<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;text-align: center;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">2-14<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;text-align: center;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">-1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: left\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">03-04<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;text-align: center;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">3-13<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;text-align: center;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">2-14<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px dotted gray;text-align: center;font-family: 'Courier New'\" width=\"25%\">+1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Only in two seasons has a Penn State team coached by Ed DeChellis underperformed relative to its Pythagorean projection.  On the whole, DeChellis is up a cool 6 games.  If it happens again this year, I&#8217;m jumping on <a id=\"ewwj\" title=\"Gasaway's bandwagon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.basketballprospectus.com\/unfiltered\/?p=193\">Gasaway&#8217;s bandwagon<\/a> &#8212; I will no longer call it &#8220;luck,&#8221; I will simply call it &#8220;DeChellis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read it all at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigtengeeks.com\/\">Big Ten Geeks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past two seasons, the win totals of Ed DeChellis&#8217; teams have exceeded what we would expect based on their play on the court. And really, this has been a staple of the DeChellis Era: Season Actual Conf. Record Pythagorean Record Difference 08-09 10-8 7-11 +3 07-08 7-11 4-14 +3 06-07 2-14 3-13 -1 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/pennstatehoops-com-has-ceased-operations\/big-ten-geeks-preview-of-the-penn-state-09-10-season\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Big Ten Geeks: Preview of the Penn State 09-10 Season&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Big Ten Geeks: Preview of the Penn State 09-10 Season - PennStateHoops.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/pennstatehoops-com-has-ceased-operations\/big-ten-geeks-preview-of-the-penn-state-09-10-season\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Big Ten Geeks: Preview of the Penn State 09-10 Season - PennStateHoops.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For the past two seasons, the win totals of Ed DeChellis&#8217; teams have exceeded what we would expect based on their play on the court. 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