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[tower912]

Tony Miller is on Line 1....

Absolutely agree.  He made it go.  Which further makes my point about MU going as far as guard play take them.  However, that was the team that came closest to being dominant up front.


Butler/Crowder not guards?  Meh.  Ok.  Not worth getting briefs in a bundle over.

[Billy Hoyle]

Operative phrase being first half of the year.

 And in my 42 years of following MU hoops, with one exception (hello, Key/Mac/Amal), the success of MU's seasons are related to how good the guard play is.

I think the 93-94 Kentucky Wildcats and Slick Rick would disagree.

[tower912]

Read again what I wrote about Key/Mac/Amal.  We are citing the same possible exception.  Though 83 is absolutely right about Tony Miller needing to be recognized.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Yes, because I judge the success of a season based on how often the team wins, not what an algorithm tells me about the efficiency of its play.
A win that the KenPom algorithm hates is still a win. A loss that the Torvik data says was well played is still a loss.

Now, if you're talking about the quality of the team, that kind of data is essential to the discussion. But we're not talking about which teams were better. We're talking about which seasons were better. I'll take actual wins over moral victories all season.

I'm sure you'd agree that SOS matters. Unless you are suggesting that 30-8 Tulsa had a better season than most of the tournament field last season.