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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 5592468, member: 1969"]
Have to remember that KP is simply an efficiency metric... and it correlates highly with margin, and ultimately what your margin was versus expectation.   Its not impacted directly by who actually wins or loses the game -- of course if you win lots of games you will do well in KP.

Here is the math.   We were expected to lose to Tennessee by 6.   We won by 2, so we were only 8 points above expectation.     8 points over 100 possession game, would be about 11 points... 11/8 games = 1.3... take away 1.4 from our current adjusted EM of 13.28 and we are at 11.98.. which is number 73 in KP.  So the move up was about as expected.

Its part of the reason KP openly admits that his system [B]should not [/B]be used to select tournament teams.   He feels his system is the best way to measure who is better if they play a game today, but its not the best way to select teams for the NCAA tournament teams.   That should be W and L's, which is largely what the NCAA does.

I will say I was pleasantly surprised by NET going from 90 to 70... it probably means the NET does have some elements in it that values W without margin (efficiency).
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