On April 8th, Hunter Wells accomplished something that doesn’t happen often in baseball: he hit for the cycle. That means Wells hit a single, a double, a triple, and a home run in a single game. Sounds simple enough, right? Well, in the majors, cycles have only happened 319 times. That’s dating back to the […]
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Tech baseball had a frustratingly bad week. So, instead of talking about what went wrong, let’s just forget it happened. That’s healthy, right? And since Tech football just had its Spring Game this past weekend, that seems like a good enough distraction as any to avoid dealing with Tech baseball right now. So, back in
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Tech ranks well among college baseball teams in a lot of stats. The Bulldogs rank 1st in ERA, 8th in triples, and 1st at throwing shade at alternative rock bands from Las Vegas. But what’s the fun of looking at one of Tech’s strengths. Instead, let’s look at something Tech is ranked 59th in: stolen
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What do Arizona, Kansas, Texas A&M, New Mexico State, Lafayette (PA), and Louisiana Tech have in common? They all are tied for 6th in college baseball with 12 triples. But what exactly does that mean? How meaningful are triples? How common are they? How much do they help a team? Can I do anything other
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There’s a saying in football: “Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.” The quote (often attributed to Bear Bryant) is so prevalent in football that it is on Wikipedia’s List of Sports Clichés. The maxim is usually attributed to football, but it can be applied to most sports. In basketball, dunks and J-shooting is what
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Now that it’s been a few weeks since the end of Tech’s 2017 football season, we can start to look back more objectively at how and why the season went the way it did. Or we could play a game. And games sound like more fun. You may have seen a few tweets referencing the
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After starting conference play 1-5, many Tech fans are calling for Konkol’s head. Some of the takes are quite simplistic: https://twitter.com/TXCWB74/status/951665043124482048 Some are a bit more creative: After a while though, the takes start to feel repetitive: https://twitter.com/ShotForty/status/951665252281802752 And it after doing some intensive research, it appears the problem goes back further than we thought
When I was a freshman at Louisiana Tech (way back in the year of 2012), I had never really gotten into college basketball. It was just the thing you watched once a year for March Madness. But that changed the first time I walked into the TAC to watch the Dunkin’ Dogs play. The leader
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Before the season began, we at gtpdd came together and posted some predictions for how the season would go. So now that we have just crossed the midway point in the season, we will go back over our predictions or make some new ones. And there’s only two reasons why you make predictions: to see
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