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UK both dominant and consistentThe Wildcats are setting a new standard for the Basketball Power IndexEmailBy Alok Pattani and Dean Oliver
ESPN Stats & Information Group

How good is Kentucky? The Wildcats are No. 1 in the polls, the Bilas Index, our College Basketball Power Index (BPI), KenPom's power index, LRMC and Sagarin. Basically, computers and humans actually agree on something -- Kentucky is the best college hoops team in the land. (RPI has UK at No. 2, but RPI is a "blunt instrument," as Jay Bilas calls it, not a computer or a human.)


Kentucky currently has the highest pre-tournament BPI we've seen over the six years of analysis we've run.


Another thing we see with Kentucky is that it is consistent. Last week, we talked about the inconsistent teams -- Notre Dame and Florida State -- both of whom made BPI look good by playing poorly since then. Kentucky is not only the best team in the land, but the most consistent on our variation scale. In fact, they are the most consistent good team in the six years of BPI.

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With a win over Florida, UK will break the record for most regular season wins in history and the first time we have won 30 games in the regular season.
Rupp won 29 a very long time ago.