That really isn't all that effective when facing Illinois, because we force the fewest turnovers in the country (while still maintaining a top 20 defense).
I'm assuming "before the tournament" means going to Google, searching the date to the Selection Show that year, and adjusting the dates on Torvik?
It is an algorithm to figure out WHO is "at the top of the sport."
We don't need it, but most of all we don't want it.
Morillo has been hurt - honestly all it is. Dude can play and would start this year for a bunch of teams in conference not named Illinois.
15/19 translates to 79%.
He might be behind Williams. I don't think he's behind Brown.
That's exactly how Petro ended up behind Wagler.
Yes, what I tracked was top 5 offense and top 45 defense.
Man I just looked at tickets and sheesh, pricey!!
Please refresh the rest of us what Morillo's injury involves.
Forgive me, as I laughed much harder at this post than I should have…..,,
Should probably pump the breaks on historical status. KenPom's have become more and more inflated year over year because the nature of KP is evaluating against the mean, or the 177th-ish team. With how the portal/NIL have basically pushed all the talent to the top and stripped teams in the middle to not being competitive, the numbers become more an more skewed. I'd only look at KP's on an annual relative basis, not against previous or other years at this point.
This is somewhat true, although a bit contextually inaccurate and not necessarily applied correctly; KenPom just recently wrote an article about this here:
Purdue's offense was more efficient than UConn's 2024 offense, even after contextualizing it historically. I'm not using better because it's too subjective. The difference here is 2026 Purdue wasn't great defensively. The offensive approach was entirely different for 2026 and 2024 Purdue so I'm not sure how you can correctly use them for comparisons.
Definitely good - but not second best all time. Do you think that Purdue team was the best offense of all time? Look at KenPom's year over year for the last 5 years. They've only escalated.
To compare one year against another, I think you have to at least take into account NCAA-wide scoring efficiency in addition to opponent defense.
Great context.This is somewhat true, although a bit contextually inaccurate and not necessarily applied correctly; KenPom just recently wrote an article about this here:
Purdue and Illinois did have the most efficient offenses in history, but the mean efficiency has also increased significantly as coaching has become more analytics focused, so further historical context is important. KenPom attempts to contextualize this by adding the delta to the mean efficiency (which for 2026 was 109.3). Illinois' AdjOE delta to the mean was +21.7, which is ~15th best since 1997 and I would say it still puts them (and Purdue) in the "historic" category. Adjusted for respective seasons' means, Illinois' AdjOE was still better than Champions like 2025 Florida, 2024 & 2023 UConn, 2022 Kansas, 2019 Virginia, 2017 UNC, 2016 Nova, 2015 Duke, etc....
Purdue's offense was more efficient than UConn's 2024 offense, even after contextualizing it historically. I'm not using better because it's too subjective. The difference here is 2026 Purdue wasn't great defensively. The offensive approach was entirely different for 2026 and 2024 Purdue so I'm not sure how you can correctly use them for comparisons.
Offense and defenses are better, but they aren't materially better on the aggregate than 2 years ago. Unless NASA has dropped in to provide some new age strategy I am missing, the biggest flaw in the data is that it's comparing to the middle of the pack, which has dropped immensely (23 had 2 mid majors in the F4, now a mid major can't get past the round of 32.
