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[QUOTE="malpearl31, post: 2869391, member: 6520"]
I don't think the actual W-L record really factors in to the kenpom rankings - I believe it's designed to be more predictive, based on what you've done and who you've done it against. (Except to the extent that the more often that you lose, the more that your points-per-possession are automatically less than your opponent's).

For Florida (to pick a random example), my guess would be that their performance against Butler on 12/29 is probably a huge driver of their current overall Efficiency Margin (ranking).  That night, they held Butler - the 32nd best offense in the kenpom rankings and 41st ranked team overall - to 0.72 points-per-possession.  And Florida put up 1.28 PPP themselves on the offensive end (Butler's defense is by no means elite, but that's still a pretty good offensive performance by the Gators).

SU doesn't have any performances to date that are that good (our season-best PPP differential is 0.47 in game #1 against Eastern Washington... and they're all the way down at 280th best in kenpom's rankings).
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