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[QUOTE="Brooky03, post: 2562352"]
That's my problem with KenPom.  Just like in baseball, where advanced stats were kind of born, the computers don't always get it right and they're not always particularly close.  KenPom is getting better and has the best advanced stats out right now, but the deviation between his rankings and real-world results is still significant.  The deviations between human projections and real-world results are larger, but both are significant to the point that you can't reasonably rely on one or the other.  With 350 teams playing vastly different schedules, assessing the relative strength of each team is an insane undertaking.  I applaud and appreciate KenPom's efforts, but I'm still skeptical that his stats/rankings should be relied upon to the degree they usually are.  They're part of a bigger picture that should include a decent dose of the human 'eye-test'.

That Duke team was mediocre by Duke standards.  Duke fans I engage with on a popular national message board tend to agree it wasn't, or shouldn't have been, a championship caliber team.
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