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In addition to most teams not having played significant competition yet, we're in the "figuring it out" phase of the season. There will be plenty of teams starting slow that turn out to be fantastic. Comparing teams based on the cupcake portion of their schedule is not terribly useful. Even when...

It’s all good. SS puts a lot of work in. He’s entitled to decline a suggestion that would create more to do (work that could also be accomplished by anyone, too). I’ll also add that I believe it’s a new thing to use Torvik as the basis for this (might be wrong) - I’m a big fan of that site.

Given how much guessing goes into the preseason rankings, would you consider reclassifying some of these teams, say, at the end of the calendar year (or at some point where we have a more solid understanding of each team’s relative performance)? Or have you found there is less movement between...

The biggest issue is his resume for me. I just don't think it happens very often that a guy who wasn't able to hold his own at a P5 after transferring up is star material at a different P5. UNC wasn't *that* talented last year, despite their reputation. If he were just filling a supporting cast...

Fran’s teams were generally good to very good on offense, but bottom of the barrel on defense. He would routinely put the 5 best offensive players on the floor and ignore defensive liabilities altogether. This is objectively supported by his teams’ analytics over the years. McCollum’s teams...

The league does give you a bunch of Q1/Q2 games - that's true. But if you don't have a "scalp" from the noncon, your margin for error in the conference season dwindles. For example, if the Gophers win at Missouri, that goes a long way on a resume. Losing that game? Hardly any effect. There's a...

This #140 ranking is an over-rank in my opinion. No offense to SS - he laid out his criteria and followed it. But the Gophs benefit in this methodology significantly despite having only one Q1 opponent and then 3 neutral Q2s. Theoretically, a team with 4 Q1s would be ranked identically, even...

#73 is still the 16th team in the league. The first 15 teams are in the top 57, and 7 are in the top 25 (if you're wondering - Rutgers and PSU are behind). All of those fanbases think they'll do as well or better, too, because ... well, because. These preseason ranks are so much more of a...

For the record, I didn't have any disagreements towards you, nor was I arguing that there would no longer be players redshirting. But, a player who does redshirt (for non-health reasons) seems an unlikely future contributor. Again, a proven commodity from the portal > a maybe guy who might...

P5 playing rotations are now transfers and guys who played as freshmen. Programs are going to be less patient waiting on players to develop when they can just go fill a need from the portal. All that to say that guys like Shinholster (and probably Groves), assuming they want to play, should...

With Woodson's departure, along with Fran and Ben, all 18 teams have what I consider to be good coaches. Indiana could be counted on to be high-talent, but woefully coached. Not anymore. I guess we'll see - DeVries is certainly a step up, but he does need to prove it.

The rankings he was using were the NET rankings in parentheses, not what’s on the first page of this thread. Looks to me like the Gophers are 2nd worst, carrying on an un-proud tradition of the previous regime.

MN was 17th, right?

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Yes, fair point. They are also a P5 team, though, and a historical rival and just above the top 122 cut line. Not a cupcake like West Georgia….

I know it's no TRUE away games, but they are playing Cal in SF, and Gonzaga in Seattle. That type of thing is becoming more and more common rather than going on campuses. The Arizona game is in Inglewood, too. The collection of Az, Cal, Gonzaga, and ASU is not particularly "weak", and...

I believe MN's average opponent rank is currently 133rd out of 148.

This is the perfect analogous situation. Bellarmine is in the Atlantic Sun conference (pretty much the same level as the Summit), and has been reasonably competitive against some big dogs over the years. If Louisville loses a game to them one year, what exactly is the consequence? Good for David...

As always, thanks for the work you do. There are a lot of ways to sort this, of course. You've chosen to do this on % of games against top 122. You also give the combined rankings of the opponents, so that could probably be another easy sort. It occurs to me that the NCAA uses Quads. The...

In hoops, the coach and his staff do have way more to do with scheduling. The AD probably has reins on mandating a certain number of home games, when they can be played to not interfere with other sports, and a budget for how much can be spent on these buy games - possibly has some final...