Reply to thread

Message

[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 5724510, member: 40"]
And yet, Saint Mary's and Santa Clara from the WCC are #27 and #37 nationally in the KenPom rankings.

Grand Canyon from the MWC is #57.

McNeese State is #67.

Belmont is #72.

And I could go on and on.  Many of those schools are above more promient, P4 schools who didn't perform as well on the quantiative inputs that go into KenPom, despite playing in more prestigious conferences.

It is all relevant.  Sure, Siena plays a bunch of dud schools in their conference.  But that is also an opportunity for them to kick them around and raise their profile.  If Siena played a bunch of higher rated programs instead, their KenPom number would be a lot worse.  So it works both ways.

Also, let's dispense with the notion that the list determines who's a "better" coach or not.  But it IS informative in terms of order of magnitude.

Example -- when I see Saint Louis is #33, there's an attribution you can make about how they play relative to Syracuse, who is #85 on the list.  That we play in the ACC versus them playing in the A10 is irrelevant.
[/QUOTE]

Verification

What is a Syracuse fan's favorite color?