George Mason in NCAA and Economics

This new Slate.com piece is by Alex and Pete Boettke.  They give away all of GMU’s secrets, or at least a few.  Excerpt:

What’s remarkable is that GMU’s freewheeling basketball team and its
free-market academic teams owe their successes to very similar,
market-beating strategies. GMU has excelled on the court and in the classroom by daring to be different.

Read the sidebar for a discussion of faculty, including yours truly:

GMU remains an underdog in both basketball and economics. But Coach
Larranaga has a plan to succeed in the long term and so do GMU’s
professors. Click here to read about how GMU is seeking out different new kinds of undiscovered geniuses.

They are too modest only about themselves.