KenPom 2024-2025 KenPom Rankings Thread

[hskr4life]

Down to just 35 in KenPom.

[hskr4life]

On 1/5/2025 at 9:48 AM, 49r said:

 

Non-Conference (10-1):
212. UTRGV - W

249. Bethune Cookman - W
328. Farliegh Dickinson - W

---Sanford Pentagon---
46. Saint Mary’s - L

 

51. @Creighton - W

246. South Dakota - W
219. North Florida - W

 

—Diamond Head Classic---

130. Murray State - W

174. Hawaii - W

82. Oregon State - W

 

248. Southern - W

Our Non-Con teams keep doing something that doesn’t normally happen to us. They’re winning. 
 

Should see some nice bumps in the rankings next update for all of them. Wonder what our non-con SOS will be.

 

[49r]

12 hours ago, hskr4life said:

Wonder what our non-con SOS will be.

 

Ask and ye shall receive:

 

Strength of Schedule
Components:	108.6 45	104.2 86	105.6
Overall:	+4.38 61		0.00
Non-conference:	-1.46 211		0.00

[hhcmatt]

13 minutes ago, 49r said:

 

Ask and ye shall receive:

 

Strength of Schedule
Components:	108.6 45	104.2 86	105.6
Overall:	+4.38 61		0.00
Non-conference:	-1.46 211		0.00

 

That's the same our non-con was rated on Nov 7th

[49r]

2 minutes ago, hhcmatt said:

 

That's the same our non-con was rated on Nov 11th

 

And we were at 193 on the day after Christmas

Edited January 12 by 49r

[hskr4life]

42 minutes ago, 49r said:

 

Ask and ye shall receive:

 

Strength of Schedule
Components:	108.6 45	104.2 86	105.6
Overall:	+4.38 61		0.00
Non-conference:	-1.46 211		0.00

 

Thanks! Just for reference-- our NET Non-Con SOS is sitting at 179 and overall SOS at 56.

[hskr4life]

Down to 41

[AuroranHusker]

Nebraska is back in the NET rankings Top 50 right at 50th after a week ago being at 55th. Keep building momentum & see where we are in a month. GBR

 

[AuroranHusker]

 

[hhcdave]

Can’t wait to see updates in the morning 

[AuroranHusker]

Nebraska's 7 wins to 7 losses between Q1/Q2, as far as I can tell after tonight. A lot more B1G opportunities remain. GBR

 

[hskr4life]

10 minutes ago, AuroranHusker said:

Nebraska's 7 wins to 7 losses between Q1/Q2, as far as I can tell after tonight. A lot more B1G opportunities remain. GBR

 

Rutgers probably pops up to a Q2 game after tonight’s win. So 7-8 tomorrow morning! Still in a really good position with the wins we have.

[AuroranHusker]

1 minute ago, hskr4life said:

Rutgers probably pops up to a Q2 game after tonight’s win. So 7-8 tomorrow morning! Still in a really good position with the wins we have.

 

Yeah, that would also mean that NU is 8-0 on Q3/Q4 games then. GBR

 

[hhcdave]

Any update? 

[Nebrasketball1979]

2 minutes ago, hhcdave said:

Any update? 

We jumped one spot (over Oregon) to 39 but we have three teams very close right in front of us 

[hhcdave]

Oh I thought we were at 49 Coming into this game. 

[brfrad]

4 hours ago, hhcdave said:

Oh I thought we were at 49 Coming into this game. 

We are 49th in NET.  In Kenpom we are 39th.

[LNKtrnsplnt]

6 hours ago, hhcdave said:

Oh I thought we were at 49 Coming into this game. 

We were. But had crept up without playing a game. This may be the first time since I’ve paid attention that Ken (39) has a higher than Bart (40).

[hskr4life]

8 hours ago, hhcdave said:

Oh I thought we were at 49 Coming into this game. 

I’ve noticed each of the last 2-3 weeks, we tend to drop 2-3 spots after the Saturday games update. Probably due to the large amount of games played on Saturday. So we basically had 0 movement from the start of the week which doesn’t make a ton of sense when you think about it lol.

Edited February 10 by hskr4life

[Vinny]

I was peaking at resumes ahead of us in NET and it seems our adjustment to schedule stronger in the non-con (targeting teams not likely to be 300+) may have hurt our efficiency metrics. UCONN is almost 20 spots ahead of us with a Q4 loss and only three Q1 wins with about the same overall record (16-7). They also have four 30+ point blow out wins against teams ranked 300+ including one over 0-18 Maryland Eastern Shore, and another over a 250+ team.  Those five teams are a combined 22-88. Our five worst opponents are 49-61, and we didn’t have the same margins of victory. We needed to blow out our early paid opponents by more to be further away from the bubble. 
 

On the flip side, if we just stay above that bubble, our road and Q1 wins should help us when it comes to seeding.

[big red22]

I would love to know how North Carolina is ranked ahead of us... someone in here want to shed some light?

[royalfan]

20 minutes ago, Vinny said:

I was peaking at resumes ahead of us in NET and it seems our adjustment to schedule stronger in the non-con (targeting teams not likely to be 300+) may have hurt our efficiency metrics. UCONN is almost 20 spots ahead of us with a Q4 loss and only three Q1 wins with about the same overall record (16-7). They also have four 30+ point blow out wins against teams ranked 300+ including one over 0-18 Maryland Eastern Shore, and another over a 250+ team.  Those five teams are a combined 22-88. Our five worst opponents are 49-61, and we didn’t have the same margins of victory. We needed to blow out our early paid opponents by more to be further away from the bubble. 
 

On the flip side, if we just stay above that bubble, our road and Q1 wins should help us when it comes to seeding.

I think it might have more to do with getting waxed by 35 a few times

[millerhusker]

35 minutes ago, big red22 said:

I would love to know how North Carolina is ranked ahead of us... someone in here want to shed some light?

Or how Gonzaga is ranked #14 in the NET. They are 18-7 and 2-6 in quad 1 games. Over half of their games played are against quad 3/4 teams. There seems to be way too much weight placed on margin of victory. 

[Vinny]

1 hour ago, royalfan said:

I think it might have more to do with getting waxed by 35 a few times

Oh I’m sure, those affect us both ways. I just believe if we’re in the field and they start looking at Q1 wins, bad losses, and road record, we’ll compare favorably to some teams that look to be a couple seed lines ahead of us right now based on these metrics alone. Right now bracketologists have us as a 10/11, the committee might put us higher than that if they selected today. History seems to think so too.

[big red22]

6 minutes ago, Vinny said:

Oh I’m sure, those affect us both ways. I just believe if we’re in the field and they start looking at Q1 wins, bad losses, and road record, we’ll compare favorably to some teams that look to be a couple seed lines ahead of us right now based on these metrics alone. Right now bracketologists have us as a 10/11, the committee might put us higher than that if they selected today. History seems to think so too.

According to Chatgpt

 

As of the 2024-25 NCAA men's basketball season, there is no record of a team with 6 Quadrant 1 (Q1) wins being excluded from the NCAA Tournament. Teams with such a number of Q1 victories have historically secured tournament bids

 

That means we need to win one Q1 and we should be in, but we know we'll be shafted if we don't win at least 2 more than that.  We are talking the first team in Big 10 history to finish 4th in the league... 22-9 overall and 13-5 in conference play.  Not only did we not make the tournament we got the 5 seed in the NIT.  That was the moment I started bashing all these so call bracket metrics bs.

 

19 is the magic number even though we should be in if we win two more Q1's reguardless of winning number 19