Kolek planning to go pro
Losing to a top 15 team on their floor is to be expected. The way it happened is the painful part.
Also, KenPom has MU going 7-3 in its final 10 games, to finish 20-10 (10-8)
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
7-3 would get us to 11-7. If you go game by game, KenPom predicts 7-3. But with so many toss ups he actually projects us to go 6-4.The way I see it is we have three games where we are favored by 3 or more points (DePaul, Creighton, Georgetown) and 1 game we are we are 3 or more point dogs (@Nova). I think it is fair to expect 3-1 in those 4 games. The remaining 6 games are all projected to be two point games. A fair expectation is splitting those 50-50 games for a record of 6-4 in our final games. Winning more or less of those 50-50 games is certainly possible. I'm still hoping for 11-7.
And we are .04 points out of 26th.I always find it interesting to look at the KenPom score rather than the ranking. Like most ranking systems, teams tend to fall on a nice bell curve. Someone can do the actual math to find deviations, but I like looking for natural breaks in the rankings to sort teams into tiers. Here are the tiers I currently see.6 elite teams:Kansas +30.18Duke 2 +28.63Gonzaga +26.07Baylor +25.86Dayton +25.50West Virginia +25.3611 very good teams:San Diego State +23.56Louisville +22.74Maryland +22.58Seton Hall +22.32Michigan State +22.25Arizona +21.62Ohio State +21.24Iowa +21.06Butler +20.06Florida State +19.52Oregon +19.3223 at large worthy teamsVillanova +18.64Colorado +18.51Purdue +18.40Penn St. +18.40Illinois +18.36BYU +18.31Houston +18.02Kentucky +17.86Texas Tech +17.44Rutgers +17.44Marquette +17.40Arkansas +17.34Minnesota +17.26Michigan +17.23Stanford +17.22Auburn +17.20Wisconsin +17.19Creighton +17.03LSU +16.85St. Mary's +16.77Florida +16.62Indiana +16.12Wichita State +15.84Bubble Teams:Mississippi State +15.17....We're right in the middle of that third tier. After the Providence debacle, we fell all the way to 41. In 4 games we have risen to 26th. I think we can play our way to the top of our current tier or even into the second tier pretty easily. We could also play ourselves out of the tournament. I feel decently confident about our play going forward.
Almost peculiar to see how closely our trendline this season is following last seasons.
Dayton is an elite team and we aren't. That says it all, doesn't it?
How do you figure? We've gone up 13 spots in the last 11 days. During the same stretch last season we fell a spot.
It tells that any program can land a superstar and ride him for a year. And if it says it about Marquette, it also says it about Kentucky, North Carolina, UCLA, Indiana, Virginia, Villanova...etc.
But in a tougher conference and without the Hausers when some said here we would crater. Yes, peculiar. Must be that the team is doing something right.Love Stan Johnson’s text
Is Markus Howard a superstar?
No. He’s an elite shooter/scorer. That’s all.
I happen to disagree. I think Markus is a superstar, that has NOT been coached in such a way to extract the maximum of his talents and teams.
Of course....he has on,y improved every year and taken big steps...he did that all on his own... no coaching up.
I figure from looking at the two lines on the graph. They for the most part have risen and fallen in similar fashion/timing. I'm not micro counting the "spots" in a finite timeframe such as 13 spots in the last 11 days.
Okay - Let's say Wojo is responsible for all of Markus's INDIVIDUAL improvement - How much improvement has there been on Markus's teams?
I posted that information last week....even YOU said you were surprised at how well we are doing in a BETTER conference without the Hausers....did that just happen? Do the coaches have no contribution to that? Get real.