up to 27 from 36. 1-1 Q1. The loss to uncW was a Q3. So while awful at least not an Evansville
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I can’t believe Miami wasn’t a Q1 when played.
I wonder what our NET was in 1996 when the SEC was absolute trash. What matters is just winning and improving. There's no team in the nation that has a higher ceiling than Kentucky.
Kentucky played 4 ranked teams OOC in 1996 and lost one to Calipari's UMass (was was ranked 5).
Had wins over:
Maryland (14)
Georgia Tech (16)
Louisville (25)
Lost to UMass (5)
Only ranked team in SEC was MIss State (12)
Kentucky finished first and UMass 2nd
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The same trash league that had 2 teams in the final four?
Early season NET not reliable. Also teams shift up or down in NET throughout the season so an early season win that at the time was a Q1 might end up as a 2 or 3.
Just keep winning. It’s easy to move fairly rapidly when you win.
Does not matter what things are when played it only matters what the rankings are at the time you look
Two teams make a league great?
We had four teams in the tournament that year with only one team (Kentucky) with higher than a 5 seed.
Mississippi State was legit in the same way Arkansas was legit from '93-95.
That doesn't mean the league was good overall. Top-heavy with a duo of title contenders leading the pack? Absolutely. Georgia was a solid 8 seed in 1996. Arkansas was a 12 seed.
After that, there were a ton of crappy teams.
My point is that it didn't chance the dynamic of Kentucky's success. UK doesn't need the SEC to be great in order to make a significant tournament run. The league was not that good in 2012 either when we won the whole thing.
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People do way too much hang wringing over the early season NET rankings. They always look way off in December and by March are pretty reasonable, which is the only time it matters. Is is still not a great metric, especially compared to things like KenPom, but it figures itself out once the sample size is sufficiently large enough.
