Hoops Opponent Watch: Important Mid-week Update
I felt it was important to update my weekly Big Ten rankings.
- Iowa
- Michigan State
- Ohio State
- Michigan
- Wisconsin
- Minnesota
- Indiana
- Nebraska
- Illinois
- Penn State
- Purdue
- Northwestern
Don't be fooled into thinking this is somehow a response to the handful of superstitious yahoos who blame my previous rankings for the Iowa debacle. I just felt it would be useful information. The fact that the rankings are in COMPLETE AND TOTAL AGREEMENT WITH KENPOM is sheer coincidence.
Go back about your business.
February 10th, 2014 at 11:48 AM ^
NEVER DISAGREE WITH KENPOM
February 10th, 2014 at 11:50 AM ^
February 10th, 2014 at 11:54 AM ^
This list needs more Purdue. Everything needs more Purdue.
February 10th, 2014 at 12:02 PM ^
DAMMIT!
February 10th, 2014 at 12:07 PM ^
IowaA really good year for them. Much better than I had anticipated
Michigan StateBut, but they've had so many injuries, according to Izzo!!!
February 10th, 2014 at 12:09 PM ^
i don't see how a message board post is going to reverse your jinx. you need bigger, shinier, brighter letters.
February 10th, 2014 at 12:15 PM ^
February 10th, 2014 at 12:21 PM ^
is this Kenpom you speak of?
February 10th, 2014 at 9:09 PM ^
Kenneth Pomeroy to you
February 10th, 2014 at 12:22 PM ^
February 10th, 2014 at 12:35 PM ^
I have an important question about your important mid-week update.
Since when is Monday considered "mid-week"?
February 10th, 2014 at 1:44 PM ^
Between Thursdays, which is when HOW usually runs.
Also, for reasons that are totally NOT just jinx-removal-related, this had to run before Michigan takes the court tomorrow.
February 10th, 2014 at 3:40 PM ^
Ahhhhh-that makes sense, thank you.
But I'm still a bit mystified by something. Didn't the leader of the band destroy any thought of the site-jinx when he profiled Lousiville last year BEFORE we had...you know....beaten Syracuse? And then laughed at those (like me) who were sure he'd done everything but gift-wrap a loss in the National Semifinal game?
February 10th, 2014 at 3:49 PM ^
But the KenPom jinx is real and is not to be effed with.
February 10th, 2014 at 2:24 PM ^
February 10th, 2014 at 2:26 PM ^
They're still really not good.
February 10th, 2014 at 2:37 PM ^
Northwestern has managed to climb to be the team with the 308th best effective field goal percentage, up from 316th a mere two weeks ago, so the future is indeed bright for the Wildcats. They should be in the middle of Division I on this metric by July or so, given the present rate of increase.
February 10th, 2014 at 3:11 PM ^
This is where KenPom struggles: evaluating the team that makes an unusually large midseason improvement. Northwestern is 5-6 in league play and has beaten Wisconsin, Indiana and Minnesota on the road; based on Big Ten play, you'd have to consider them a pretty solid team, But because of their poor nonconference performance, when they were getting acclimated to Chris Collins's system, they look terrible in all the seasonlong evaluations. Their turnaround is reminiscent of 2010-11 Michigan's. I'm glad we're not going to Evanston.
February 10th, 2014 at 3:42 PM ^
But their 6 conference losses were by 27, 23, 26, 14, 26, and 4 (to Nebraska at home). Throw in a double OT win over Purdue and a 6 point win over Illinois, and it's hard to declare them, you know, not bad.
Also, PLEASE DON'T TRY TO REJINX THE KENPOM UNJINX