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<blockquote data-quote="zpfled" data-source="post: 1357976" data-attributes="member: 5335"><p>Good questions:</p><p></p><p>1) I don't know much about stats, and have never paid a ton of attention to KenPom because I don't think it's fun to read that many numbers for a hobby. I haven't watched many other Big Ten teams. Therefore I can't really disagree with KenPom's ranking of us, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of separation between us and Northwestern or Maryland, so even if they're better than us, they're not MUCH better than us. Maybe we're 13th by the numbers, but with some luck we can finish higher than that.</p><p></p><p>2) This is partially contingent on Leron's status, but I expect wins in the latter half of this season (but probably not enough to get us into the tourney), and more wins to come next season because we replace Alstork with Ayo and we add a year of Underwood's coaching to a promising group of underclassmen (and 3 decent upperclassmen). I expect mega wins to start in 2018 (assuming we have a strong recruiting class, particularly on the big man front)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zpfled, post: 1357976, member: 5335"] Good questions: 1) I don't know much about stats, and have never paid a ton of attention to KenPom because I don't think it's fun to read that many numbers for a hobby. I haven't watched many other Big Ten teams. Therefore I can't really disagree with KenPom's ranking of us, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of separation between us and Northwestern or Maryland, so even if they're better than us, they're not MUCH better than us. Maybe we're 13th by the numbers, but with some luck we can finish higher than that. 2) This is partially contingent on Leron's status, but I expect wins in the latter half of this season (but probably not enough to get us into the tourney), and more wins to come next season because we replace Alstork with Ayo and we add a year of Underwood's coaching to a promising group of underclassmen (and 3 decent upperclassmen). I expect mega wins to start in 2018 (assuming we have a strong recruiting class, particularly on the big man front) [/QUOTE]
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