Virginia Tech No. 30 in Initial 2020-21 KenPom

By: Joe Lanza
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on November 4, 2020, 9:07 AM | 18 comments
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Jander75's picture Jander75 | 5 years 8 months #

Um, translation? WTF is a kenpom?

I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction:
“I served in the United States Navy"

hokie07ME's picture hokie07ME | 5 years 8 months # ^

basketball rankings put together by Ken Pomeroy (Hokie class of 1995)

Warning: this post occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors)..

bar1990's picture bar1990
ATLIEN
| 5 years 8 months # ^

It's basically the SP+ of college basketball

VT_Fencer's picture VT_Fencer | 5 years 8 months #

SHOOTY HOOPS LET'S GOOOOOOOO

I've been looking forward to seeing what CMY will be able to do now that we'll have more size appropriate post players than just Big John.

The Orange and Maroon you see, that's fighting on to victory.

4th_of_4_Hokies's picture 4th_of_4_Hokies
WHERE AM I?
| 5 years 8 months #

I still had football brain going when I clicked on the link and saw we were ranked just behind.....Syracuse? WTF??!!

deep breath...check forum...

Oh, hoops. All better.

2HokiesIn1's picture 2HokiesIn1
PICK 6 BIG SHOOTS
| 5 years 8 months # ^

It was more confusing trying to figure out how we were 14 spots worse than the Hoos.

A decade on TKP and it's been time well spent.

mogwaiaredangerous's picture mogwaiaredangerous | 5 years 8 months #

I don't know who's tweeting this, but his avatar is the cover of a Spoon album so i trust him implicitly.

gjpvt09's picture gjpvt09 | 5 years 8 months #

The "m" looking like an "r" and "n" put together will really get after ya.

TKPhi Damn Proud
BSME 2009

hokie07ME's picture hokie07ME | 5 years 8 months #

m? rn? Oooohhh

KenPorn

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joey25's picture joey25
| 5 years 8 months #

That seems.....high?

ashore13's picture ashore13
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| 5 years 8 months # ^

I am also very surprised by this projection. Does KenPom have open source description of how the team ratings are generated?

"That move was slicker than a peeled onion in a bowl of snot." -Mike Burnop

ltrepeter2000's picture ltrepeter2000
HOKIE HOOPS WIZ
| 5 years 8 months # ^

Not exactly open source but here are his ratings explanation:

Kenpom Ratings Methodology

Rob Peterson
VTCC
Charlie/Hotel Company
Class of 1999

ashore13's picture ashore13
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| 5 years 8 months # ^

Thank you! Missed it perusing his website.

"That move was slicker than a peeled onion in a bowl of snot." -Mike Burnop

ltrepeter2000's picture ltrepeter2000
HOKIE HOOPS WIZ
| 5 years 8 months #

CBSSports released their initial rankings and the Hokies are 65th, somewhere between Kenpom and this probably is closer to the truth unless Diarra has a monster season. Still a positive review regardless.

"65. Virginia Tech: Though it's ranked lower, this is my choice for ACC sleeper. Mike Young's commitment to fun offense will ensure the Hokies are a worthwhile watch in most games this season. Wabissa Bede is among the hardest-playing guards in major-conference hoops, but the guy to watch is Cartier Diarra, who is a grad transfer by way of K-State. Mark me down for VT winning two or three games this season where it's a considerable underdog."

Rob Peterson
VTCC
Charlie/Hotel Company
Class of 1999

dzilla77's picture dzilla77
🥃🎸🎲⛳️
| 5 years 8 months # ^

If Diarra can be as effective as the other recent transfer from the state of Kansas, we should be ok.

Hokieflyguy's picture Hokieflyguy
RAIL EXPERT
| 5 years 8 months # ^

65th puts us in the tourney. March Madness, here we come!

You will see this game, this upset and this sign next on ESPN Sportscenter. Virginia Tech 31 Miami 7

His decision was made after a phone call with longtime Virginia Tech assistant coach Bud Foster. All Foster told him was, "We win. They don't."

macraw83's picture macraw83 | 5 years 8 months # ^

Not exactly, but.... sure, let's go with it.