KenPom 2018-2019 KenPom Rankings Thread

[49r]

Seems like the ACC/B1G challenge is a good time for some out of band KenPom updates.

 

Wisco and Purdue flip-flop.  Indiana drops five spots, Iowa drops 7.  Penn State moves up just one and Illinois in a loss moves up 7 spots!

 

As far as conferences go, the ACC gains a razor-thin advantage over the B1G to move back into second (for now).  But it looks like we've got a Power 3 this year and everybody else is looking up.

 

Ranking of conferences by averaging AdjO and AdjD of the teams

Conference		Rating	Conference		Rating
1	Big 12 Conference	+17.42	17	Southern Conference	-2.12
2	Atlantic Coast Conference	+16.45	18	Summit League	-3.73
3	Big Ten Conference	+16.42	19	Western Athletic Conference	-4.84
4	Big East Conference	+13.01	20	Horizon League	-4.95
5	Southeastern Conference	+12.97	21	Big Sky Conference	-5.13
6	Pac 12 Conference	+9.07	22	Patriot League	-5.14
7	American Athletic Conference	+6.08	23	Big West Conference	-5.19
8	West Coast Conference	+4.31	24	Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference	-5.81
9	Mountain West Conference	+2.46	25	Ohio Valley Conference	-6.41
10	Missouri Valley Conference	+2.08	26	Big South Conference	-6.98
11	Atlantic 10 Conference	+1.93	27	America East Conference	-7.51
12	Mid American Conference	+1.84	28	Atlantic Sun Conference	-7.70
13	Conference USA	-1.28	29	Northeast Conference	-9.64
14	Ivy League	-1.39	30	Southland Conference	-10.14
15	Colonial Athletic Association	-1.71	31	Southwestern Athletic Conference	-16.19
16	Sun Belt Conference	-1.78	32	Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference	-16.91

 

Not a lot of change in the non-con portion, except Oklahoma State continues to creep up, they may be in the 40's very soon.  Big game between them and Minnesota in US Bank stadium on Friday.  Okay, here we go:

 

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KenPom rankings as of 11-28-18

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B1G (0-0):

7. Michigan

9. Michigan State

12. Purdue

13. Wisconsin

23. Ohio State

25. Nebraska

26. Indiana

39. Iowa

32. Maryland

37. Penn State

46. Northwestern

49. Minnesota

88. Illinois

116. Rutgers

 

 

Non-Conference (6-1):

345. Mississippi Valley State - W

296. Southeastern Louisiana - W

 

---Gavitt Tip-Off---

54. Seton Hall - W

 

---Hall of Fame Classic---

187. Missouri State - W

11. Texas Tech - L

 

236. Western Illinois - W

 

---B1G/ACC Challenge--- 

30. @Clemson - W

 

34. Creighton

 

---Sanford Pentagon--

51. Oklahoma State

 

146. Cal State Fullerton

n/a. Southwest Minnesota State

[hhcmatt]

35 minutes ago, 49r said:

except Oklahoma State continues to creep up

 

Good thing Michael Weathers didn't steal two women's wallets

[49r]

Just for giggles this morning I went back to take a look at where we were in the KenPom world exactly one year ago.  Pretty interesting stuff:

 

https://huskerhoopscentral.com/forums/topic/11666-2017-2018-kenpom-rankings-thread/?page=4

 

[Norm Peterson]

Don't look now, but we're up to #21, at least temporarily.

 

OK, maybe you better look now.  It could change.

[Red Don]

I looked too late; we're now @ #22.  

[49r]

After the ACC/B1G Challenge we've moved back into 2nd among conferences, which is good to see.

 

Ranking of conferences by averaging AdjO and AdjD of the teams

Conference		Rating	Conference		Rating
1	Big 12 Conference	+17.40	17	Southern Conference	-2.02
2	Big Ten Conference	+16.48	18	Summit League	-3.32
3	Atlantic Coast Conference	+16.39	19	Horizon League	-4.78
4	Big East Conference	+13.20	20	Western Athletic Conference	-4.84
5	Southeastern Conference	+13.04	21	Big Sky Conference	-5.05
6	Pac 12 Conference	+9.15	22	Patriot League	-5.11
7	American Athletic Conference	+5.91	23	Big West Conference	-5.20
8	West Coast Conference	+4.18	24	Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference	-6.06
9	Mountain West Conference	+2.42	25	Ohio Valley Conference	-6.82
10	Missouri Valley Conference	+2.06	26	Big South Conference	-7.02
11	Mid American Conference	+1.98	27	Atlantic Sun Conference	-7.57
12	Atlantic 10 Conference	+1.88	28	America East Conference	-7.74
13	Ivy League	-1.17	29	Northeast Conference	-9.57
14	Conference USA	-1.24	30	Southland Conference	-10.11
15	Sun Belt Conference	-1.82	31	Southwestern Athletic Conference	-16.32
16	Colonial Athletic Association	-1.86	32	Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference	-16.78

 

As for individual teams there has been some movement.  Nebraska is up to #21 now (I believe our highest ranking of the KenPom era, but I'm not sure).  A win agains Illinois could potentially push us into the teens!!!  Ohio State takes a significant tumble and Northwestern actually drops after a win.  Rutgers is getting closer to pulling out of triple digits but not yet.

 

Clemson and Creighton are back in the top-30, but the rest of our non-con remains pretty much unchanged.

 

Okay, here we go:

 

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KenPom rankings as of 11-29-18

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B1G (0-0):

6. Michigan

11. Michigan State

12. Purdue

13. Wisconsin

21. Nebraska

23. Indiana

30. Ohio State

34. Maryland

37. Penn State

38. Iowa

47. Northwestern

50. Minnesota

88. Illinois

103. Rutgers

 

 

Non-Conference (6-1):

346. Mississippi Valley State - W

297. Southeastern Louisiana - W

 

---Gavitt Tip-Off---

54. Seton Hall - W

 

---Hall of Fame Classic---

210. Missouri State - W

9. Texas Tech - L

 

219. Western Illinois - W

 

---B1G/ACC Challenge--- 

27. @Clemson - W

 

29. Creighton

 

---Sanford Pentagon--

53. Oklahoma State

 

147. Cal State Fullerton

n/a. Southwest Minnesota State

[hhcmatt]

9 minutes ago, 49r said:

 A win agains Illinois could potentially push us into the teens!!!

 

We're favored by 11 so it would need to be a 20+ point win to push us anywhere.  Something like a 5 point win and we drop.  This is how life works at the top.

[49r]

8 minutes ago, hhcmatt said:

 

We're favored by 11 so it would need to be a 20+ point win to push us anywhere.  Something like a 5 point win and we drop.  This is how life works at the top.

 

Yeah I figured it'd have to be something like that.  Probably along with some teams in front of us losing and the ones right behind not doing anything terribly impressive.  But you're right - our position now is fairly tenuous as it is and we're more likely to drop than anything.  Plus the gap between us and KSU and ISU is pretty substantial:

 

19	Iowa St.	B12	6-1	+20.23	113.6	16	93.4	22	69.7	199	-.064	273	-0.90	201	102.9	189	103.8	224	-0.90	201
20	Kansas St.	B12	6-0	+19.71	109.8	50	90.1	5	68.4	263	+.000	168	-5.76	306	99.4	320	105.2	283	-5.76	306
21	Nebraska	B10	6-1	+17.99	111.2	32	93.2	20	68.2	268	+.051	104	-0.99	203	101.3	253	102.2	151	-0.99	203
22	Florida	SEC	4-3	+17.98	110.1	46	92.1	13	66.6	327	-.103	315	+4.62	77	105.2	91	100.6	80	+4.62	77
23	Indiana	B10	5-2	+17.93	112.0	27	94.1	27	71.5	101	-.058	261	-2.24	242	101.7	236	104.0	233	-2.24	242
24	West Virginia	B12	4-2	+17.88	112.8	24	94.9	36	71.1	119	-.084	300	+2.67	120	104.3	125	101.6	118	+2.67	120

Edited November 29, 2018 by 49r

[Red Don]

Time to show @49r some Luv for all his hard work!  

[hskr4life]

Currently, every Big 10 road game is a Q1/Q2 game.  That is a hugeeee plus.

[hhcmatt]

 

[Norm Peterson]

1 hour ago, hhcmatt said:

 

 

Will History sort of repeat?  Looks like we're due for another #21 or #22 to come through with a title.

[49r]

I like putting W's up next to teams names.  We're still #21 but we are getting oh-so-close to cracking that top 20, our adjusted efficiency (+18.48) is just a few tenths behind KSU.

 

18	Villanova	BE	6-2	+20.17	116.8	8	96.6	53	65.4	340	+.063	83	+1.13	141	102.8	200	101.6	98	+1.13	140
19	Syracuse	ACC	5-2	+19.33	111.5	38	92.1	9	67.2	298	-.010	192	+0.03	173	103.8	152	103.8	207	+0.03	170
20	Kansas St.	B12	6-1	+18.67	109.5	55	90.8	4	69.8	186	-.008	190	-2.60	247	101.6	257	104.2	229	-2.60	245
21	Nebraska	B10	7-1	+18.48	111.6	35	93.1	18	67.4	292	+.062	85	-0.51	195	102.0	230	102.5	133	-1.15	206
22	Ohio St.	B10	7-1	+18.15	111.9	32	93.7	23	66.9	310	+.006	160	+0.20	166	103.9	146	103.7	204	-1.17	207
23	Mississippi St.	SEC	6-1	+18.01	110.4	47	92.4	12	68.7	244	-.023	223	-2.04	233	103.0	190	105.0	269	-2.04	229

 

Okay, here's today's update:

 

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KenPom rankings as of 12-03-18

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B1G (1-0):

5. Michigan

9. Michigan State

10. Wisconsin

14. Purdue

21. Nebraska

22. Ohio State

26. Indiana

32. Maryland

37. Iowa

39. Penn State

46. Northwestern

55. Minnesota

93. Illinois - W

106. Rutgers

 

 

Non-Conference (6-1):

347. Mississippi Valley State - W

287. Southeastern Louisiana - W

 

---Gavitt Tip-Off---

58. Seton Hall - W

 

---Hall of Fame Classic---

219. Missouri State - W

12. Texas Tech - L

 

209. Western Illinois - W

 

---B1G/ACC Challenge--- 

27. @Clemson - W

 

31. Creighton

 

---Sanford Pentagon--

53. Oklahoma State

 

149. Cal State Fullerton

n/a. Southwest Minnesota State

[hhcmatt]

 

We are called "mini-Michigan" by Ken Pomeroy in his podcast, which is high praise.

I'd put this in the podcast section, but to be honest, I don't find the KenPom podcast to be very compelling at all and often just tune out my brain while working and listening

[49r]

Florida jumped up to #21 with their win over West Virginia last night, dropping us a spot to #22.

[bigFRED]

What does kenpom say about our schedule and standing as of today???

[northwillriseagain]

#1 seed!

 

this one has us a #1 seed, definitely the best bracket on bracket matrix, lol

[big red22]

Yep... Whoever bingo is, is a Big 10 hater.  Biased polls should never be used. 

 

Dude has Clemson as a 5 seed, yet no Nebraska. Need to take that bracket down now with that kind of bias.  I know bracket matrix isn't used by the committee, but their eyes probably look at it a time or two

Edited December 5, 2018 by big red22

[hhcmatt]

2 hours ago, noahjb24 said:

What does kenpom say about our schedule and standing as of today???

 

Still 21-10 overall, 11-9 in conference. 

[49r]

Little bit of jumbling in the B1G.  Nebraska was #22 going into the game last night and drops to #24 today.  Iowa tumbles to #43 after the MSU beatdown and look at Rutgers finally pulling out of last place!

 

Not much change at all in the non-con portion.

 

Okay, here's today's update:

 

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KenPom rankings as of 12-06-18

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B1G (1-1):

4. Michigan

9. Michigan State

12. Wisconsin

14. Purdue

20. Ohio State

23. Indiana

24. Nebraska

30. Maryland

39. Penn State

43. Iowa

47. Northwestern

52. Minnesota - L

99. Rutgers

105. Illinois - W

 

Non-Conference (6-1):

349. Mississippi Valley State - W

288. Southeastern Louisiana - W

 

---Gavitt Tip-Off---

59. Seton Hall - W

 

---Hall of Fame Classic---

208. Missouri State - W

13. Texas Tech - L

 

218. Western Illinois - W

 

---B1G/ACC Challenge--- 

32. @Clemson - W

 

29. Creighton

 

---Sanford Pentagon--

57. Oklahoma State

 

157. Cal State Fullerton

n/a. Southwest Minnesota State

Edited December 6, 2018 by 49r

[Nebrasketball1979]

24 minutes ago, 49r said:

Little bit of jumbling in the B1G.  Nebraska was #22 going into the game last night and drops to #24 today.  Iowa tumbles to #43 after the MSU beatdown and look at Rutgers finally pulling out of last place!

 

Not much change at all in the non-con portion.

 

Okay, here's today's update:

 

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KenPom rankings as of 12-06-18

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B1G (1-1):

4. Michigan

9. Michigan State

12. Wisconsin

14. Purdue

20. Ohio State

23. Indiana

24. Nebraska

30. Maryland

39. Penn State

43. Iowa

47. Northwestern

52. Minnesota - L

99. Rutgers

105. Illinois - W

 

Non-Conference (6-1):

349. Mississippi Valley State - W

288. Southeastern Louisiana - W

 

---Gavitt Tip-Off---

59. Seton Hall - W

 

---Hall of Fame Classic---

208. Missouri State - W

13. Texas Tech - L

 

218. Western Illinois - W

 

---B1G/ACC Challenge--- 

32. @Clemson - W

 

29. Creighton

 

---Sanford Pentagon--

57. Oklahoma State

 

157. Cal State Fullerton

n/a. Southwest Minnesota State

 

That's weird...based off the reaction of some, I thought our season was effectively ended yesterday and we were about to be searching for a new coach.  Maybe Ken should shake his computer until his rankings are significantly lower for us and match the expectations of the handful that are overreacting.

[Norm Peterson]

41 minutes ago, Nebrasketball1979 said:

 

That's weird...based off the reaction of some, I thought our season was effectively ended yesterday and we were about to be searching for a new coach.  Maybe Ken should shake his computer until his rankings are significantly lower for us and match the expectations of the handful that are overreacting.

 

Sky falling again?  AGAIN?  Oh, man, and I didn't bring my umbrella today. 

[hskr4life]

So we lost a Q1 road game.  It freaking happens.  We are 1-1 in Q1 road games for those of you who are on the “can’t win a road game” train.  And it will probably happen again for everyone who takes a step toward the ledge with every loss.

 

Currently 1-2 in Q1 games and 6-0 everywhere else.  Not too shabby.

[hskr4life]

Also, this weekend is another current Q1 game.  Chance to go 2-2!  Get it done fans!!

[HuskerFever]

6 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

So we lost a Q1 road game.  It freaking happens.  We are 1-1 in Q1 road games for those of you who are on the “can’t win a road game” train.  And it will probably happen again for everyone who takes a step toward the ledge with every loss.

 

Currently 1-2 in Q1 games and 6-0 everywhere else.  Not too shabby.

 

Just so you know, the Dec. 4 update had Minnesota at #82. A Quadrant 1 road game is 1-75. They will likely climb into that Q1 category, but at the end of the season, it's probably a Q2 loss.