KenPom 2023-2024 KenPom Rankings Thread

[hskr4life]

20 minutes ago, tcp said:

well, we didn't go into free fall in spite of that butt kicking. so there's that. I guess ya gotta give Badgers some props. 

 

Maybe the hoops gods will grace us with the upset of the decade for our program. Would be a nice change. 

 

It's very likely we're facing the #1 and #2 teams in the conference in back-to-back games.  It's also somewhat of a chance that we just played the #1 team.

[hskr4life]

Don’t look now but Minny is 12-3, 3-1 and up to 78 with their win today.  Quietly becoming now just a meh loss but almost a missed opportunity at a good win.

[49r]

7 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

Don’t look now but Minny is 12-3, 3-1 and up to 78 with their win today.  Quietly becoming now just a meh loss but almost a missed opportunity at a good win.

 

Minnesota might just win enough for Ben Johnson to keep his job (and keep Craig Smith/Niko Medved/Darian DeVries away).

[hskr4life]

32 minutes ago, 49r said:

 

Minnesota might just win enough for Ben Johnson to keep his job (and keep Craig Smith/Niko Medved/Darian DeVries away).

Im honestly shocked… shocked!  I didn’t think that was a very good Minnesota team we played in December.  I’ve got tickets to that game in February and that may be an interesting one should each team continue on their current trajectory.

[thrasher31]

51 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

Don’t look now but Minny is 12-3, 3-1 and up to 78 with their win today.  Quietly becoming now just a meh loss but almost a missed opportunity at a good win.

It's interesting to watch. I don't think they're a good team still, but they're clearly better than they were last year. Mitchell and Hawkins have a lot of juice to them. And I absolutely LOVE Payne. Very very very good big. 

 

Also winning on the road in this conference is a very hard task. Michigan losing to PSU today may just mean they're a bad team, so them losing to Minnesota may have been the start of the spiral. 

[TourneyBound]

Got to like how our schedule is setting up over the last month of the season…

[49r]

10 hours ago, ConkintheCorner said:

Got to like how our schedule is setting up over the last month of the season…

 

Well it's gonna be a lot easier than the first month that's for sure.

[49r]

 

Better chances of finishing 3rd than 13th.  Better chance to finish 4th than 9th.

[throwback]

Looks like we have a 84.2% chance of avoiding playing on Wednesday.

 

And since you're wondering, yes, I often am accused of looking at the bright side of almost everything.

 

[hskr4life]

Jumped alllll the way up to #42!

[Norm Peterson]

On 11/24/2023 at 9:00 AM, Norm Peterson said:

Up to #42 this morning, having not played anyone. Others losing in front of us or teams we've beaten doing well?

 

Took a month-and-a-half, but we're back up to #42.

 

In the meantime, we beat everyone we were supposed to (except maybe Minnesota) and we beat a couple of teams we weren't supposed to (Michigan St and Kansas St).

 

And now we knocked off #1. Which means we've beaten THREE teams we weren't supposed to and only lost to a Minnesota team that turns out is maybe better than anyone thought.

 

So, because we only beat South Carolina St by 29 or so ...

[hskr4life]

T Rank also has us up into the 40s and now with a projected record of 22-9, 12-8

[jason2486]

27 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

T Rank also has us up into the 40s and now with a projected record of 22-9, 12-8

No, not 22-9 again  #2017-18

[hskr4life]

45 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

T Rank also has us up into the 40s and now with a projected record of 22-9, 12-8

Torviks list of similar resumes shows a familiar face…..

 

 

[AuroranHusker]

On 1/8/2024 at 1:25 PM, throwback said:

Looks like we have a 84.2% chance of avoiding playing on Wednesday.

 

And since you're wondering, yes, I often am accused of looking at the bright side of almost everything.

 

 

I'd say that percentage may have ticked up a notch after beating #1 Purdue. GBR

 

 

[tcp]

What happened to the rule that you took the rank of the team you beat? That's a thing, right? 

 

[49r]

Our overall strength of schedule jumped nearly 100 spots since I last checked:

 

Strength of Schedule
Components:	105.2 160	104.7 161	104.9
Overall:	+0.50 150		0.00
Non-conference:	-7.81 353		0.00

 

[AuroranHusker]

5 minutes ago, 49r said:

Our overall strength of schedule jumped nearly 100 spots since I last checked:

 

Strength of Schedule
Components:	105.2 160	104.7 161	104.9
Overall:	+0.50 150		0.00
Non-conference:	-7.81 353		0.00

 

 

 

While that non-con. number isn't pretty, it certainly helped NU to gel and win a bunch of ballgames, and essentially assisted in the Huskers being able to win some big games after that initial process of becoming a good team. GBR

 

[49r]

Big jump up to #41, we are now closer to passing up Ohio State than we are to getting passed by Iowa or Northwestern.  

 

Kansas State gets another win, this time on the road at WVU.  They move back into the 50's and that helps us out a bunch.

 

Ken moves us back up to 21-10 (11-9).  Torvik says  22-9 (12-8).

 

San José State loses yet another heartbreaker, this time to San Diego State, but move up 12 spots to #167. 

 

Here we go.

 

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KenPom rankings as of 1-10-24

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B1G (3-2):
3. Purdue - W
9. Illinois
12. Wisconsin - L
19. Michigan State - W
34. Ohio State
41. Nebraska
53. Iowa
56. Northwestern
69. Michigan
77. Minnesota - L

81. Maryland
87. Rutgers
93. Indiana - W
113. Penn State

 

 

Non-Conference (10-1):
344. Lindenwood - W

334. Florida A&M - W

---Cornhusker Classic---
276. Rider - W
235. Stony Brook - W

---Sanford Pentagon---
158. Oregon State - W

 

---Cornhusker Classic---

103. Duquesne - W

 

239. Cal State Fullerton - W

14. Creighton - L
54. @Kansas State - W
294. North Dakota - W

335. South Carolina State - W

[Nebrasketball1979]

As of today, only 6 teams in the country have more Quad 1 wins than Nebraska's 3.  Encouraging sign for bigger and better things in March.

[hhcmatt]

3 minutes ago, 49r said:

San José State loses yet another heartbreaker, this time to San Diego State, but move up 12 spots to #167. 

 

I was watching that last night while winding down. SJSU was down 2 with 13 seconds left, their PG worked into the paint where he found a cutter who got the game tying shot erased from behind because that's the type of team that San Diego St has.

[hskr4life]

2 minutes ago, hhcmatt said:

 

I was watching that last night while winding down. SJSU was down 2 with 13 seconds left, their PG worked into the paint where he found a cutter who got the game tying shot erased from behind because that's the type of team that San Diego St has.

I watched a little as well, but was able to fall asleep when they were down a couple in the 2nd half.

 

Tim’s having himself a Scott Frost type of season.  “Close but no cigars”

[Navin R. Johnson]

6 hours ago, hskr4life said:

I watched a little as well, but was able to fall asleep when they were down a couple in the 2nd half.

 

Tim’s having himself a Scott Frost type of season.  “Close but no cigars”

 

Oh, so that is what you call them.  I have heard different terms for them.

[Norm Peterson]

On 10/16/2023 at 7:45 PM, tcp said:

for me, it's gotta probably be this year....so Huskers, just let me go out with a winning season...:) In return, I won't haunt you!

 

This seems about as good a year as any to finally get that monkey off our backs.

 

Hang in there. We 'bout to get places we ain't never been before.

[Norm Peterson]

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