re: KenPom Rankings 2/1

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I mean we're 4-2 vs Quad 1 teams and 3-0 vs Quad 2. It's not like we're only stacking wins against terrible opponents and floundering against better competition.

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I would imagine South Carolina's KenPom issue is:

74-64 Home vs VMI (1-18 NET 361)
73-68 N vs Depaul (3-18 NET 320)
65-53 H Notre Dame (NET 181)
68-62 N East Carolina (NET 196)
72-62 H Winthrop (NET 174)
73-69 H Charleston Southern (NET 318)


That's a lot of games, most at home, where an efficiency based rating system has South Carolina very close to even with some pretty bad teams.

If you look at Alabama, just for example, where people point to the tough scheduling -- and it does help to lose by 2 points to NET #1 on a neutral floor -- another big difference you see is that the home games against sub-150 NET teams mostly have scores like 102-46 and 111-67.

If more of South Carolina's looked like their 22 point home win over G. Washington (NET 163) these SOS adjusted efficiency numbers would look a whole lot better.

The bright side is that KenPom / NET is just one of many things the committee considers and like you post, South Carolina has a great resume by all other measures.