{"id":383,"date":"2010-03-15T09:32:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T13:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/?p=383"},"modified":"2010-03-15T11:34:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T15:34:46","slug":"volcanic-billikens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"Volcanic Billikens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Billikens bombed in Atlantic City in the A-10 Tourney.  They hoped for an NIT bid, but didn&#8217;t get it.  Now as I await the announcement of the College Basketball Invitational teams, I share some Google trends.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;NIT Selection Show&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/NITSelectionshow1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-385\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"NITSelectionshow\" src=\"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/NITSelectionshow1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So as thousands of college basketball fans whose bubbles had burst googled NIT Selection Show, many came across Billikens.com.\u00a0 Before tonight, the most users that had been on the message board at one time was about 230.\u00a0 Tonight, we reached 437.\u00a0 Even on an upgraded server plan, we crashed a bunch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The really interesting thing is to see the spike in people who searched for &#8220;College Basketball Invitational&#8221;.\u00a0 The NIT selection show ended at 9:30, and it seems people frantically hunted after then for another bubble to ride.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/CBI.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-387\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"CBI\" src=\"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/CBI.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My guess is the x-axis is Pacific time.\u00a0 So as soon as the NIT Selection Show ended, Google got swarmed with CBI seekers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Google called the above trends volcanic.\u00a0 The below is a preliminary graph of Billikens.com traffic tonight&#8230;.Does sort of look like a Volcano.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/volcano.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-389\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"volcano\" src=\"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/volcano.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sorry if these Billikens.com posts are boring.\u00a0 The site has just been pretty interesting to me in the past month.\u00a0 Now, lets make the Billikens 2010 CBI Champions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Update: SLU, GW, and Princeton all made the CBI.\u00a0 The final four could legitimately include each of those schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Billikens bombed in Atlantic City in the A-10 Tourney. 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