ESPN's CBB 351 team ranking...

#3
#3
Best case scenario is 11th. Worst case is 66th.

I wish he did this but with win totals instead. Pretty sure Hanner did that for Basketball Prospectus
 
#4
#4
Virginia at 11 and Iowa at 16, interesting. Were a bit lower ranked than I thought we would be, 30 by USAT, now 34 by this ESPN ranking, curious as to the AP poll. I thought we'd be ranked by most everyone and in the 20-25 range.

We will have a chance to make a statement quickly though, at Xavier is a huge game, and if we come out of Atlantis 2-1 with a loss to Kansas in the championship we should be ranked somewhere in the top 15 by the time we get back to the states IMO.
 
#5
#5
bleedingTNorange said:
Virginia at 11 and Iowa at 16, interesting. Were a bit lower ranked than I thought we would be, 30 by USAT, now 34 by this ESPN ranking, curious as to the AP poll. I thought we'd be ranked by most everyone and in the 20-25 range.

We will have a chance to make a statement quickly though, at Xavier is a huge game, and if we come out of Atlantis 2-1 with a loss to Kansas in the championship we should be ranked somewhere in the top 15 by the time we get back to the states IMO.
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This guys ranking system is interesting. He actually rates each player in CBB by efficiency and applies that to a team scale. Obviously there is going to be too much variance at a player level to be significant. Aggregated to a team level helps reduce some of that variance, but that's why he includes best and worst case scenarios for each team.

BTW, I think Iowa and UVA are going to be much improved this year.
 
#6
#6
bleedingTNorange said:
Virginia at 11 and Iowa at 16, interesting. Were a bit lower ranked than I thought we would be, 30 by USAT, now 34 by this ESPN ranking, curious as to the AP poll. I thought we'd be ranked by most everyone and in the 20-25 range.

We will have a chance to make a statement quickly though, at Xavier is a huge game, and if we come out of Atlantis 2-1 with a loss to Kansas in the championship we should be ranked somewhere in the top 15 by the time we get back to the states IMO.
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What if we beat Kansas? :)
 
#8
#8
Kansas will he super talented. More talented than UK IMO, but they'll be really young so there is a chance.
 
#15
#15
bleedingTNorange said:
Can ESPN not decide where to put us?

The first link in this thread has ESPN with us at #34
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Two different rankings. The one in the OP is a rating based on statistical projections. The power ranking is just a composite of ESPN's contributors.
 
#22
#22
The best pre-season predictions have came from the CBS guys. IMO Rothstein has us at 13 and Palm has us at 17. I think thats pretty accurate.
 
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