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Wisconsin basketball enters season as one of KenPom’s top teams

Wisconsin basketball enters season as one of KenPom’s top teams

Welcome to a highly-anticipated season of Wisconsin basketball.

The Badgers’ 20-15 2022-23 season was a disappointment. The program missed the NCAA Tournament for just the second time since 1998 and went just 9-11 in Big Ten play.

2023-24 has the look of a gigantic bounce-back season. The program returns all of its top contributors (Chucky Hepburn, Tyler Wahl, Steven Crowl, Connor Essegian and others), while adding transfer guard A.J. Storr and an impressive freshman class. It’s likely Greg Gard’s deepest team since taking over as head coach. And it might be his most talented top-to-bottom.

The 2023-24 KenPom rankings agree, at least to start. The Badgers enter the season ranked No. 20 in the nation, good for the No. 4 slot in the Big Ten behind Purdue, Michigan State and Illinois.

Wisconsin begins its quest for another Big Ten title tonight when Arkansas State visits Madison.

MSU basketball opens season outside top 10 of KenPom rankings

The computers don’t like Michigan State basketball entering the season as much as the media

The computers don’t like Michigan State basketball entering the season as much as the media.

Michigan State has been a consensus preseason top five team in every media poll I’ve seen leading up to the 2023-24 season. However, in the initial KenPom rankings that dropped on Sunday, Michigan State is not even in the top 10.

The preseason Pomeroy College Basketball Ratings have the Spartans listed at No. 13 nationally. Michigan State is the second-highest team from the Big Ten behind only Purdue who came in at No. 1. Directly behind the Spartans from the Big Ten was Illinois (No. 19), Wisconsin (No. 20) and Maryland (No. 23).

Check out the top 25 teams in the initial batch of KenPom rankings below or click here for a complete review of all 362 teams.

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Florida stays steady in KenPom rankings following Wednesday’s win

Florida finds itself in the same spot as before Wednesday night according to KenPom.

Florida basketball hosted the South Carolina Gamecocks on Wednesday night and came away with a 21-point win to make it two in a row in Southeastern Conference competition. The Gators still have a way to go to get onto the right side of the NCAA Tournament bubble, but the victory gave the fans a lot to feel good about.

However, the win was not enough to move Florida in the updated Pomerory College Basketball Rankings — also known as KenPom — in which the Gators held steady at No. 41. Their most recent opponent USC dropped from No. 244 to No. 274 following its loss.

Next up for the Orange and Blue is a trip out to Manhattan, Kansas, to face [autotag]Keyontae Johnson[/autotag] and the fifth-ranked Kansas State Wildcats, who are currently ranked No. 26 in the KenPom. Tipoff is slated for 6 p.m. EST on Saturday, Jan. 28, and the game will be broadcast on ESPN2 as well as the Gators IMG Sports Network.

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KenPom sees Gators move up thanks to road win over Mississippi State

Here’s where the Gators landed in KenPom’s rankings after Saturday night’s win.

Todd Golden’s Gators took a step forward on Saturday night by earning a Quad 1 win on the road against the Mississippi State Bulldogs thanks to a surprisingly strong start. The ‘Dawgs fought and clawed their way back into the game late, but the Gators managed to close out a one-possession game — something that has been a bit of a bane for the squad in Southeastern Conference competition this season.

While the win improved Florida’s record to a mediocre 11-8 record overall and a 4-3 mark in SEC play it also gave the team a boost in the objective rankings such as the Pomeroy College Basketball Ratings, also known as KenPom, which bumped the Orange and Blue up five spots from No. 46 to No. 41 on Sunday.

The Gators return home for their next matchup with the South Carolina Gamecocks who are currently ranked No. 244 in the KenPom rankings. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 25, inside the O’Connell Center, with ESPN2 handling the video broadcast and Gators IMG Sports Network taking care of the radio coverage.

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Here’s where Gators land in KenPom rankings after close Texas A&M loss

Oddly, the Gators remained exactly where they were before in the KenPom rankings following the TAMU loss.

The Texas A&M Aggies have become the bane of Florida basketball over the past couple of years, now having won four in a row over the Gators — all by single-possession final scores. In fact, TAMU shut the door on the Mike White era last season when it outlasted the Orange and Blue in overtime early in the 2022 Southeastern Conference Tournament.

After the Gators’ win over the Missouri Tigers on Saturday, they found themselves ranked No. 44 in the Pomeroy College Basketball Rankings, also known as KenPom. Following the Wednesday night loss, Florida finds itself in the same exact spot as before at No. 44 while Texas A&M follows closely behind at No. 48.

Next up for Florida is a road trip to face the Mississippi State Bulldogs late Saturday night. MSU holds a 12-6 record overall but just a 1-5 mark in conference play and is currently ranked No. 59 in the KenPom rankings. Tipoff is set for 8:30 p.m. EST inside Humphrey Coliseum in Starkville, Mississippi and the game can be watched on the SEC Network or heard on the Gators IMG Sports Network.

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The KenPom preseason rankings have the Badgers in the nation’s top 10

Of all the college basketball rankings, polls and analysis, there is one that accurately predicts future production with advanced…

Of all the college basketball rankings, polls and analysis, there is one that accurately predicts future production with advanced statistics and metrice. It is Ken Pomeroy’s KenPom rankings.

Last night those rankings were released for the 2020-2021 college basketball season and coming in at No. 7 in the nation are the Wisconsin Badgers.

From KenPom.com, the ratings are “designed to be purely predictive” and use advanced metrics to predict each team’s offensive production, defensive production, strength of schedule and more.

Related: Here is how Wisconsin football can still make the Big Ten Championship game

The recently-released rankings have Greg Gard’s team as the best team in the Big Ten, with Ohio State, Iowa, Michigan State, Michigan, Illinois and Purdue also making the Top 25.

The Badgers, coming off a shared regular-season Big Ten title, return their entire core from last season and, if national rankings and polls are any indication, are in for another successful season.

 

Next…Where every Big Ten team is ranked

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