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It’s a basketball board and I didn’t see a thread. Surprisingly Auburn is ahead of Bama. Thought you all would want to know. If not, no worries.
Fair enough, a lot of fans of other fanbases on here just come to stir shit up. To answer the original question Kentucky is lower than I think they should be. Kentucky be around around 22-30. Arkansas around 15-25, and Auburn shouldn’t be ahead of bama
 
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Fair enough, a lot of fans of other fanbases on here just come to stir shit up. To answer the original question Kentucky is lower than I think they should be. Kentucky be around around 22-30. Arkansas around 15-25, and Auburn shouldn’t be ahead of bama
It’s all just guessing for now, anyways. Both teams will be good.
 
Just FYI. Thought you all would be interested.
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To the extent any statistical analysis went into this, I’m sure having a number of guys from middling to bad teams last year factored into it. Drexel, OSU, OU, wake and WVU didn’t exactly light the world on fire and we’re depending on transfers from those schools to carry the load.
 
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It's meaningless until there are games played, I would say at least 5 per team. So, any modeling right now, has way too many assumptions to be valid.
This is coming from a Statistician who has developed a model.
 
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All the critics really seem to think well be a middle of the pack team next year. I know its Popes first year and he had to do a full rebuild so I wont hold it against him.

I do hope were a top 25 team though :)
 
#42??!! That's hilarious. It's going to be awesome way outperforming national expectations this year vs what we had been doing for many years now.
It has 9 SEC schools ranked above us. Our SEC record will determine our national ranking. First year coach with total rebuild has a ton to do with our ranking. I do think we will outperform our ranking. 10 teams will not make tourney from SEC so we will have to out perform Kenpom's bullshvt.
 
Just looked. He has us losing 4 of the last 5 games and 4 in a row starting with the Jan 7th game. Total record is projected at 18-13 (8-10).
 
Just looked. He has us losing 4 of the last 5 games and 4 in a row starting with the Jan 7th game. Total record is projected at 18-13 (8-10).
Nah. If someone wants to believe we could lose 4/5 to start SEC play... ok, that's whatever. But this team is not finishing the season like that. And I don't even have to look at the schedule. I expect us to be a real problem by the end of conf play.
 
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Just looked. He has us losing 4 of the last 5 games and 4 in a row starting with the Jan 7th game. Total record is projected at 18-13 (8-10).
I just hope our delusional fans do not turn on Coach Pope. I hope they understand he can't be expected to turn this program around year one with a total rebuild through the portal
 
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I just hope our delusional fans do not turn on Coach Pope. I hope they understand he can't be expected to turn this program around year one with a total rebuild through the portal
Barring a disaster (KP in Louisville), he should get 3 years to build a contender.
 
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Barring a disaster (KP in Louisville), he should get 3 years to build a contender.
I'd like to see him get 4 or 5. I'm sure fans won't be THAT forgiving. But I think there's a real chance he gets some guys to stay for the full 4 years, especially the way he's gone out and targeted KY kids.

I actually think this year is going to go better than we initially thought. I think a sweet 16 is very realistic. And I think if he can do that early, he buys a lot of grace going forward. His teams should only get better.
 
To the extent any statistical analysis went into this, I’m sure having a number of guys from middling to bad teams last year factored into it. Drexel, OSU, OU, wake and WVU didn’t exactly light the world on fire and we’re depending on transfers from those schools to carry the load.
Don't try to reason on this board. It's not wanted.

But, yeah, I agree.

I can see a scenario this team is a few games over .500 and middle of the pack in conference. I also see a scenario it wins 25 games and is top 3 in conference. My gut tells me it's a roughly 10 loss team, somewhere around 4-6 in conference and a 5/6 seed in the tourney.
 
Don't try to reason on this board. It's not wanted.

But, yeah, I agree.

I can see a scenario this team is a few games over .500 and middle of the pack in conference. I also see a scenario it wins 25 games and is top 3 in conference. My gut tells me it's a roughly 10 loss team, somewhere around 4-6 in conference and a 5/6 seed in the tourney.
20-11 (10-8) is likely and not horrible under the circumstances.
 
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