Ken Pomeroy

But in this era, man, it's about getting as much talent as you can and trying to win games, and that's what Indiana's trying to do.

KenPom says that Purdue is the better team as of right now.

Purdue-

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... where Indiana is, Jacob? They're at 40.

For all the shiny toys, for all the money you guys spent in the portal, KenPom has you at 40.

Now that doesn't neces-

Now, I have my overall thoughts on the Syracuse offense in general, which is I think Syracuse's offense is gonna struggle.

Ken Pom has Syracuse offensively outside the top 100 in their preseason rankings.

I'm just saying that I don't think Tuesday against UConn definitively proved that to be the case.

That's all I'm saying, that my thoughts about Syracuse not being good offensively go beyond just Tuesday, because on Tuesday, we have to be fair, Aiden Tobiasen, who's expected to be one of the leading scorers of the team, he got hurt less than two minutes in, so he missed the rest of the game.

Let's see.

How about... them yeah we'll go Louisville there we go Louisville is 17th on the preliminary 2027 Ken Pomeroy rankings this is my excuse to talk about the preseason Ken Pomeroy rankings which Missouri is ranked Kenny you want to guess because I know Peyton's looked at this 36 no close well not really he's sort of close sort of close I guess your dip but depends on your definition of close 48th.

48th for the Tigers.

Ken Palm has spoken.

We're taking notes, and we're trying to gather our thoughts as well.

We have the KenPom rankings out.

All of the numbers are out from all of the analytics guys.

Gus, greetings, and happy college basketball season.

It took us a little while to figure out our pathway to this preseason part, but I'm glad we're here.

I'm glad we're able to talk about some results, so let's get into it.

Let's start with the KenPom numbers.

I think they're fair.

It's crazy.

Also, this KenPom, wait, that should've been in news and notes, KenPom dropped their, his preseason-

How dare I?

... his preseason rankings.

... let's, let's stay specific.

I don't wanna get back into talking about A10.

Uh, but, but by the way, even, again, like, I, I don't wanna keep going back to KenPom, but it is a valuable s- like, s- source of, and metric.

The gap between the Big East and the ACC preseason is the second-biggest gap of any conference preseason, uh, i- in the preseason.

But I think they will finish outside the top 25.

So I kind of just leave this up for interpretation, whether you think it's gonna be outside the top 25 at KenPom, 'cause they are actually preseason, um, I believe...

Let me double-check here.

Yeah, they're actually preseason 28 at KenPom, so this isn't really that much of a hot take.

But they're probably gonna be in the preseason top 15 of the AP poll.

So I'm kind of leaving it up to interpretation, whichever one you think.

Is he a winning player? I don't quite know.

However, there's no denying he is an elite scorer.

And then we're seeing a lot of other data.

Folks like Evan Miyakawa, Eric Haslam, Ken Pomeroy, they're putting out their advanced stats.

And how do you take a look at them? Because I think all these men do absolutely amazing work.

Now, for my own work personally, I really don't look at them too much just because I want my own, shall we say, handicaps to be my own.

But how do you take a look at things? Because I know that folks like Ken Pomeroy, and he talked about it when he released his initial rankings, he's made quite a few changes over the last few years.

Yeah, absolutely.

I think preseason polls are a good starting point, but I don't put too much weight into them.

Um, and then-

Okay, and this is, just real quick, this is like the old school, uh, Dean Oliver basketball on paper that Ken Pomeroy popularized for college basketball, right?

I, yes.

Excellent.