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Never Watch and Listen To "I Bleed Blue" too often!!!!!!

The Current State of the UK Roster
Projected Into The Out Years
AND
RECRUITING PROSPECTS
FOR 2013 THROUGH 2015

See the Current Top 64 Ratings
Based On Adjusted Net Game Efficiency
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How Have The Pomeroy Rankings Worked Out
With Recent National Champions?

Very Well, actually, with the #1 rated team winning the
National Championship in 2008, 2009, and 2010.
In 2011, Connecticut came out of nowhere for an amazing run
to the Championship as the #10 rated team on the Season.

See the Details at this LINK!!!!

The Brackets Are Now Set For 2012
Kentucky Is the #1-#1 Seed
AND
Ended the Regular Season #1 in Pomeroy
Follow the NCAA Tournament At This LINK

Follow the 2012-13 Cats From a Mid-summer analysis
of the roster, to pre-season predictions, and then game by game analysis.
You can use the following link to start the reading in sequence,
or you can select links to specific installments below:

Follow the 2012-13 Season
With Game to Game Analysis
In the Sequence Written,

OR

Go Directly To A Specific Installment of This Series:

01 2012-13 PRE-SEASON FORECAST

02 Exhibition Season Starts with Northwood

03 Cats Finish Their Exhibition Pre-Season With Rematch of Last Season's Exhibition Against the Transylvania Pioneers.

04 Cat Open 2012-13 Season Against Maryland in Brooklyn, New York

05 Cats Move Down To Atlanta To Challenge Duke

06 Cats Finally Open Their 2012-13 Home Season

07 Cats Host Sean Woods' Morehead Eagles For Thanksgiving

08 Cats End Three-Game Home Stand Against Long Island

09 Cats Get First True Away Game At Notre Dame

10 Cats Lick Their Wounds From Notre Dame
Wait For Baylor

11 Cats Are Facing Realities After Back To Back Losses

12 Cats Draw Calipari's Public Criticism For Poor Conditioning

13 Cats Take Their Classroom Finals, But
Cats Know the only exam that matters is waiting at Louisville

14 Cats Pass Their Lipscomb Quiz with a C+, But Need To Ace The Marshall Quiz
To Prepare For the Louisville Final Exam

15 This Is It; The Main Event; Cats and Cards

16 Cats Use Last Non-Conference Game To Consolidate Their Gains

17 Cats Ease From OCC To SEC This Week

18 Cats Open SEC At Vanderbilt

19 Cats Limp Home To Rupp

20 Cats Searching For Identities Following Second Rupp Loss

21 Cats Struggle with Split Personality Disorder

22 Cats Complete An Alabama Road Swing

23 Cats Return To Rupp To Fix Some Problems

24 Cats Return To The Road For Two More-First Mississippi

25 Cats Travel To College Station For Payback

26 Cats Finish Critical Five Game Swing With Four Wins
Return To Rupp To Prepare For SEC Stretch Run

27 SEC Mid-Term Evaluation

28 Cats Prepare For Most Difficult Test of the Season Against Auburn

29 Cats Travel to Gainesville For Their First Marquee Game Since Louisville

30 Cats Start A Seven Game Season Without Nerlens Noel

31 Cats Return To Rupp For Three Game Homestand

32 Cats Host College Game Day and Missouri

33 Cats Close Home Stand Against Mississippi State

34 Cats Take Their "New Attitude" On The Road

35 Cats 2012-13 Season Limping To Close Much The Way It Started

36 That Was The Year That Was

37 Fresh Start or Ugly End- Which Will It Be

38 The Nerlens Noel Affect

39 The 2013 NCAA Tournament Contenders

40 Cats Miss Big Dance-Open NIT On the Road At Robert Morris

THE DATA:

Rebounding Rates; Game-to-Game Grades;
Kentucky and Opponent Shooting Summary; Pace by Game;
Opponent Strength Summary Tables; Turnover Rates by Game; and
Efficiency Trends For Season, Individual Efficiency Table

Next Game Projected Box Score

UK 2012-13 INTERIM STATS
COMPARED TO NCAA D1 AVERAGE Together with Summary
Tables for 1993 Through 2012

PREDICTED V. ACTUAL SCORES, MARGINS, AND TOTAL POINTS
FOR ALL GAMES IN THIS AND RECENT SEASONS

HISTORICAL DATA FOR ALL SEASONS
KENTUCKY BASKETBALL 1972 THROUG H 2012
TABULATED BY COACH

ANALYSIS OF KENTUCKY BASKETBALL
WITH TEAM AVERAGES FROM 2000 THROUGH 2012

Data for UK Teams 1996, and 2000 Through 2012 for Each Sort Category
Noted Below:

1. All Games, Including Exhibitions
2. All Games-D1 [No Exhibitions]
3. Home
4. Away
5. Neutral Court
6. Non-Conference
7. SEC
8. Pomeroy Top 50
9. Pomeroy Over 50
10. Post Season Play
11. Games Since Louisville Game, 2003-2012
12. SEC Tournament Gateway
13. NCAA Tournament

Current Individual Efficiencies

Updated Following Each Game

Kentucky Efficiencies by Game

College Basketball-NCAA D1
2012-13 Season Upset Rate
Daily Data/Results

Summary Table Sorted By Probability Of Winning

Graph of Probability of Winning v Upset Rate

Theoretical and Actual Upset Rate v Time
2012-13 AND 2011-12

THE 2013 NCAA TOURNAMENT FIELD IS NOW SET AND
THE TOURNAMENT IS READY TO BEGIN
USE THIS LINK TO TRACK THE RESULTS V NGE PREDICTIONS
Link Will Be Activated Later

The 2012 SEC Tournament Is Coming in early March
Thursday March 8-First Rouund Games
Friday March 9-Quarter Final Games
Saturday March 10-Semi-final Games
Sunday March 11-Championship Game

Use This Link To Your Gateway To the Entire SEC Tournament
With Predictions and Actual Results Updated As They Occur
All Data Are Current With Projections To Year End Results
Based On Favorites Winning All Game To End of Regular Season
LINK TO BE ACTIVATED LATER

2011-12 Team Photo

OVERVIEW OF 2012-13 OPPONENTS' PERFORMANCE LEVELS

A SUMMARY OF ALL 2012-13 UK OPPONENTS' STRENGTH
SORTED BY PREDICTED GAME MARGINS
[LOWEST TO HIGHEST]

RANKING OF ALL 2012-13 OPPONENTS BY PYTHAGOREAN - POMEROY

SEC RANKINGS
BASED ON ADJUSTED NGE

PROJECTED SEC SEASON
BASED ON ADJUSTED NGE FOR ALL SEC TEAMS

PROJECTED SEC AND TOTAL WIN LOSS RECORDS FOR SEC TEAMS
BASED ON ADJUSTED NGE, POMEROY, AND GAMER PROJECTIONS

Follow the 2012-13 Season
With Game to Game Analysis
In the Sequence Written,

THE DATA:

Rebounding Rates; Game-to-Game Grades;
Kentucky and Opponent Shooting Summary; Pace by Game;
Opponent Strength Summary Tables; Turnover Rates by Game; and
Efficiency Trends For Season, Individual Efficiency Table

Next Game Projected Box Score

UK 2012-13 INTERIM STATS
COMPARED TO NCAA D1 AVERAGE Together with Summary
Tables for 1993 Through 2012

PREDICTED V. ACTUAL SCORES, MARGINS, AND TOTAL POINTS
FOR ALL GAMES IN THIS AND RECENT SEASONS

HISTORICAL DATA FOR ALL SEASONS
KENTUCKY BASKETBALL 1972 THROUG H 2012
TABULATED BY COACH

ANALYSIS OF KENTUCKY BASKETBALL
WITH TEAM AVERAGES FROM 2000 THROUGH 2012

Data for UK Teams 1996, and 2000 Through 2012 for Each Sort Category
Noted Below:

1. All Games, Including Exhibitions
2. All Games-D1 [No Exhibitions]
3. Home
4. Away
5. Neutral Court
6. Non-Conference
7. SEC
8. Pomeroy Top 50
9. Pomeroy Over 50
10. Post Season Play
11. Games Since Louisville Game, 2003-2012
12. SEC Tournament Gateway
13. NCAA Tournament

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