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[QUOTE="CardiacCuse, post: 5635173, member: 6979"]
currently 9 teams with more losses than the Cuse with a higher kenpom ranking than the orange (#58)
oklahoma, cincinnati, creighton, TCU, washington, VCU, texas, auburn, kentucky

currently 17 (!) 5 loss teams with a higher kenpom than SU (SU currently at 12-5 record)
VA Tech, Santa clara, LSU, UCLA, Wisconsin, Baylor, Indiana, NC state, Iowa, Lousiville, St johns, alabama, kansas, tennessee, florida, kansas, ohio state

i think SU is suffering here bc they dont know how to win by maximum margin and often turn games they could win by 20+ into single digit wins.

but it also shows that if they can string together a couple more wins they will probaby jump considerably in the metric bc there are roughly 26 teams above them with worse or comparable W-L records

personally I think kenpom significantly undervalues W-L record

also, this isnt about the hofstra loss either - hofstra is 13-5 with a higher kenpom than marquette, gtown, fsu, penn state, maryland, ga tech, rutgers, etc - that loss will only get better as the season goes on, imo

on top of all that, not having donnie will undoubtedly help them when it comes to selection sunday

as long as they can continue to play well from here on out
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