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Season is over

He’s the worst. Claiming he was at the game tonight and calling people stupid. Total clown act.

Even if it’s true “I was at the game tonight where were you” is such a BS thing to hang your hat on. Some of us don’t live anywhere near Kentucky and can only really dream about going to a game.
 
Ohio State is 14-11…. Vanderbilt is ranked 48th on KenPom and Arkansas (41st on KenPom) is a Q2 loss on NCAA Net Rankings. All three are bad losses.
I find it very funny you left out Ohio State's Kenpom ranking. Is it because they're ranked 28th and including it would weaken your argument? Ohio State might be a bad loss based on the margin, but they're 27th in the NET and 28th on Kenpom. But guess what? Sometimes great teams just lay an egg.

Losing at Vandy in conference play isn't a bad loss. The same thing happened to Tennessee and Memorial Gym has a long history of crazy upsets. Arkansas is only a bad loss if you remove all context from that game and ignore the fact that they're a bubble team.
 
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I find it very funny you left out Ohio State's Kenpom ranking. Is it because they're ranked 28th and including it would weaken your argument? Ohio State might be a bad loss based on the margin, but they're 27th in the NET and 28th on Kenpom. But guess what? Sometimes great teams just lay an egg.

Losing at Vandy in conference play isn't a bad loss. The same thing happened to Tennessee and Memorial Gym has a long history of crazy upsets. Arkansas is only a bad loss if you remove all context from that game and ignore the fact that they're a bubble team.
For Ohio State, we came in ranked 11th on KenPom before Ohio State. Following the loss, we dropped in incredible 15 spots down to 26 total. Absent that loss. We would be near #10. So it is dragging us down 8 spots, or 3 seed lines. So yes it is a bad loss and I’m concealing nothing. The numbers are what they are.

Vanderbilt cost us 6 spots from 16th pregame in the metrics to 22nd afterward. So yes, another bad loss. Arkansas isn’t quite as bad, but losses at home are held against you and we dropped 3 spots from 19th to 22nd.

By contrast, good losses don’t drop you spots. See Clemson - lost and went up a spot.

But indisputably, Ohio State is an albatross around our necks that we won’t shake this year.
 
For Ohio State, we came in ranked 11th on KenPom before Ohio State. Following the loss, we dropped in incredible 15 spots down to 26 total. Absent that loss. We would be near #10. So it is dragging us down 8 spots, or 3 seed lines. So yes it is a bad loss and I’m concealing nothing. The numbers are what they are.

Vanderbilt cost us 6 spots from 16th pregame in the metrics to 22nd afterward. So yes, another bad loss. Arkansas isn’t quite as bad, but losses at home are held against you and we dropped 3 spots from 19th to 22nd.

By contrast, good losses don’t drop you spots. See Clemson - lost and went up a spot.

But indisputably, Ohio State is an albatross around our necks that we won’t shake this year.
Kempom doesn’t take wins and losses into account at all. It’s purely an efficiency metric that looks at how many points you score and allow per 100 possessions. We could have squeaked out wins in all those games and our ranking would have fallen a good deal anyway.
 
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Kempom doesn’t take wins and losses into account at all. It’s purely an efficiency metric that looks at how many points you score and allow per 100 possessions. We could have squeaked out wins in all those games and our ranking would have fallen a good deal anyway.
I’m well aware of how KenPom works; I have followed daily for 14 years.
 
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