Oh my goodness.
Down in Washington, the D.C. Sports Bog just published an extraordinary exposé on the life of the man whose stats I quote so often on here, Ken Pomeroy.
Forget about the fact that the Bog's author, Dan Steinberg, refers to me directly in his post. The stuff on Pomeroy is pretty astonishing.
First, that he lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Which you could sort of pick up already based on the games he says he goes to in his blog, but I never realized that was exactly where he lived.
Second, that he grew up in the D.C. area, which doesn't much matter to anyone reading this blog. But one Washington-related thing with him of very real consequence is that he thinks very, very highly of Georgetown. The Hoyas have the No. 2 raw offensive efficiency in the country and the No. 1 adjusted efficiency, which has some kind of formula built in based on strength of opposition that I don't quite get (I use the raw stats in Crunchy Numbers in part for that reason).
The Bog reports that Pomeroy has a particular affection (on this Valentine's Day, naturally) for Georgetown center Roy Hibbert, who is No. 8 in offensive rating and No. 2 in effective field goal percentage (despite the fact that he plays almost entirely in the paint).
The most important about Pomeroy's Georgetown obsession, though, is that the Hoyas come to the Wachovia Center on Saturday to play Villanova. I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that if the Wildcats win -- which is a very real possibility because they already beat Georgetown in D.C. this season -- 'Nova had better get some serious respect.
And there's one other thing about Ken Pomeroy that you need to know: in his day job, he's meteorologist for the National Weather Service (this was first reported by the Raleigh News and Observer's ACC Now blog).
That's something we could really use some of around here right now.
