Well, the Billikens bombed in Atlantic City in the A-10 Tourney. They hoped for an NIT bid, but didn’t get it. Now as I await the announcement of the College Basketball Invitational teams, I share some Google trends.
In anticipating the NIT announcements, someone started a thread on Billikens.com titled NIT Selection Show. Google picked up this thread for its search engine, and for most of the day, it was the 3rd item that came up when you searched for NIT Selection Show. Well, the Billikens.com servers paid for that tonight. Here is a Google trend graph for “NIT Selection Show”
So as thousands of college basketball fans whose bubbles had burst googled NIT Selection Show, many came across Billikens.com. Before tonight, the most users that had been on the message board at one time was about 230. Tonight, we reached 437. Even on an upgraded server plan, we crashed a bunch.
The really interesting thing is to see the spike in people who searched for “College Basketball Invitational”. The NIT selection show ended at 9:30, and it seems people frantically hunted after then for another bubble to ride.
My guess is the x-axis is Pacific time. So as soon as the NIT Selection Show ended, Google got swarmed with CBI seekers.
Google called the above trends volcanic. The below is a preliminary graph of Billikens.com traffic tonight….Does sort of look like a Volcano.
Sorry if these Billikens.com posts are boring. The site has just been pretty interesting to me in the past month. Now, lets make the Billikens 2010 CBI Champions.
Update: SLU, GW, and Princeton all made the CBI. The final four could legitimately include each of those schools.
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