11-13-2019, 11:34 AM
(11-12-2019, 10:53 PM)SamuelMcF Wrote: <snip> By KenPom, Santa Clara is #119 and we're #85. (Wazzu is #138.) The only non-total-cupcake opponent until Oklahoma in a couple weeks.
According to KenPom, Evansville--who just beat Kentucky at Rupp--is #136!
I think it takes a couple of months before these rankings start to make sense.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)