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Never-Say-Die Cats Advance To NCAA Final Four

  • Kentucky improves to 28-10 overall while Michigan ends the year 28-9
  • Kentucky leads the series 5-2 and 2-1 in NCAA Tournament action.
  • The Wildcats lead the nation with a 115-46 all-time NCAA record .
  • Kentucky is 5-1 in NCAA Tournament games played in Indianapolis.
  • UK is 17-2 in NCAA Tournament games under John Calipari.
  • Kentucky has advanced to its 16th Final Four.
  • Kentucky has advanced to the Final Four three of last four years.
  • Kentucky's 17 tournament wins under Calipari is the most since 2010. (Florida, Kansas and Louisville are next with 11 each. )
  • Kentucky defeated three-straight top-10 teams to make the Final Four. (All three teams comprised a portion of the 2013 Final Four.)

 

John Calipari, master of reinvention,
conjures greatest coaching job of era
By Mike DeCoursey-Sporting News

 

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2014 NCAA TEAM DATA
AND NGE RANKING

 

2013 NCAA TEAM DATA
AND NGE RANKING

First Round

2013 NCAA TEAM DATA
AND NGE RANKING

ROUND OF 32

2013 NCAA TEAM DATA
AND NGE RANKING

SWEET 16

2013 NCAA TEAM DATA
AND NGE RANKING

ELITE 8

 

2013 NCAA TEAM DATA
AND NGE RANKING

FINAL 4-PROJECTED BASED ON ADJ NGE

 

2013 NCAA TEAM DATA
AND NGE RANKING

CHAMPIONSHIP GAME-PROJECTED BASED ON ADJ NGE

 

2014 NCAA Tournament
Adjusted NGE vs Seed Level

2014 NCAA Tournament
BCS vs Mid-Majors

 

 

2011 SUMMARY OF PREDICTED V ACTUAL GAME BY GAME RESULTS


 

 

SUMMARY OF UPSET FREQUENCIES AND TOURNAMENT UPSETS
SORTED BY PREDICTED MARGINS-2011

THEORETICAL V ACTUAL WINNING PERCENTAGE OF FAVORITES
AS A FUNCTION OF PREDICTED MARGIN-2011


To Data Tables for Games Against Team Ranked RPI Top 50

The above data is presented in the next series of tables providing more detail in two respects.  First, the tables examine more categories of statistics, and second, the data is sorted based on the following factors, in the order shown 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, 2003-2013
  12. SEC Tournament Gateway
  13. NCAA Tournament

You may link to any of these sorted data pages using the links above, or you can browse them in sequence using the "Continue" buttons at the bottom of each page.

 

IMPORTANT NOTE: In 2009-10, the Kentucky basketball team's rebounding became so dominant in the first 10 games that the differences created by a varied definition of a possession became substantial, and based on a 10 game comparison of predicted and actual results using the original definition and the Pomeroy definition, I have decided to start using the Pomeroy definition for a possession beginning with the 2009-10 season, and thereafter. However, I have no means to convert the data for all prior seasons to this new definition at this time. Therefore, any attempts to compare pace and efficiency derived values for 2009-10 and later with any prior season's posted values will fail. The differences are:

1. Pace values will be lower, by the number of offensive rebounds.

2. Efficiencies will be higher due to the lower number of total possessions

3. Turnover rates will be higher due to the lower number of possessions.

CHECK OUT THESE OTHER ANALYTICAL WRITINGS

What Is Basketball?

What is a Possession?

Change in Position on Definition of Possessions

What Is Net Game Efficiency?

Why Do "Upsets" Occur?

Do Objective Performance Measures Like NGE
Account For Intangible?

 

 

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