Kentucky Sports Radio
[Moderated by Matt Jones, Drew Franklin and Tyler Thompson]
[Moderated by Matt Jones, Drew Franklin and Tyler Thompson]
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Remember me telling you about the BPI, ESPN’s new power ranking system, a few weeks ago? Remember, Jay Bilas and a fleet of ESPN analysts created it to compete with the unreliable RPI? Well, the BPI is picking up in popularity and with good reason. According to the latest rankings, ESPN says Kentucky is setting a new standard of dominance and consistency in the BPI, and has the highest pre-tourney BPI they’ve seen in six years of analysis:
How good is Kentucky? The Wildcats are No. 1 in the polls, the Bilas Index, our College Basketball Power Index (BPI), KenPom’s power index, LRMC and Sagarin. Basically, computers and humans actually agree on something — Kentucky is the best college hoops team in the land. (RPI has UK at No. 2, but RPI is a “blunt instrument,” as Jay Bilas calls it, not a computer or a human.)
Kentucky currently has the highest pre-tournament BPI we’ve seen over the six years of analysis we’ve run.
Another thing we see with Kentucky is that it is consistent. Last week, we talked about the inconsistent teams — Notre Dame and Florida State — both of whom made BPI look good by playing poorly since then. Kentucky is not only the best team in the land, but the most consistent on our variation scale. In fact, they are the most consistent good team in the six years of BPI.
Here’s the current top ten in the BPI:
1. Kentucky
2. Syracuse
3. Kansas
4. Ohio State
5. North Carolina
6. Michigan State
7. Duke
8. Missouri
9. Wichita State
10. Baylor
We are the needle.
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March 2nd, 2012 at 8:12 pm
1st…fans don’t keep saying we are cruising to the 4..because it will back fire
March 2nd, 2012 at 8:24 pm
newest bracketology is super favorable for kentucky.
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology
March 2nd, 2012 at 8:25 pm
Luv the bpi seems to actually show the best teams. I do think the Ohio st u is ranked a bit high. Me and a bud of mine joined last nights live blog for the first time and were surprised that it was pretty tough to get our comments posted. Just wondering if this is the norm for nubes cause the same group of peaps seemed to constantly get on.
March 2nd, 2012 at 8:32 pm
@3 yeah – it is hard to get on the live blog – you got to be real clever http://bit.ly/AA7ZBI
March 2nd, 2012 at 9:35 pm
LOVE the guys’ smiles!
March 2nd, 2012 at 9:37 pm
I had not seen or heard about this Cal interview on the Dan Patrick show. If you have, I apologize…if not, it’s worth hearing:
http://www.foxsportssouth.com/03/01/12/Kentucky-looks-like-a-favorite-in-blowou/landing_sec.html?blockID=678082&feedID=3703
March 2nd, 2012 at 9:43 pm
You know, all these things are for the fans, and a distraction to the players. I would rather our players think the world DID NOT THINK THEY ARE GOOD ENOUGH TO WIN, and use that as motivation. This is not NCAA Div 1 Football, where the pollsters decide who the champion is. This is NCAA Div 1 Basketball, where champions are decided in one place: the hardwood. There is only one thing that counts: Who is ahead on the scoreboard when the final horn of the final game sounds.
March 2nd, 2012 at 11:08 pm
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March 2nd, 2012 at 11:09 pm
I posted this on the show thread this morning (#284) and no one was paying attention. Dang.
March 3rd, 2012 at 11:04 am
This can’t be right. Everybody knows Duke is always number 1.