[Old School Hound]

ChatGPT predicted:

UK  86  Oakland  65
UK  77  Texas Tech  71
UK  79  Marquette  75
Houston  82  UK  78

Oh, and it also predicted that some KY billhillies  will be calling for Cal to be fired after the loss to Houston in the Elite Eight round.  That's the most predictable thing ever.

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KenPom:

AdjO = Adjusted Offensive Efficiency

AdjD = Adjusted Defensive Efficiency


UK :   Ranked #5 in  AdjO ;  ranked #110 in AdjD  (No team ranked worse than #17 in AdjD has ever won a national championship)

Oak:  Ranked #134 in AdjO ; ranked #165 in AdjD

Net Overall Efficiency(AdjO - AdjD) :  UK is ranked #21  ;  Oakland is ranked #137.


Based on net overall efficiency ,  KenPom has Kentucky winning by 17.


Factoid:   There are nine teams that have worse seedings than UK that have a better overall KenPom ranking( SD St. #20 , Mich St. #19,  St Mary's #18,  Wisconsin #17 , BYU #16 , Gonzaga #15 , Alabama #13 , Duke #8, Auburn #4).

I could be off base here, but I think it's starting to dawn on you that the committee doesn't seed based on KenPom, JimBob or any other system. And yes the more Calipari doesn't perform, the more people will want rid of him and his obscenely excessive pay package.

I could be off base here, but the selection committee has licked Coach Plato's balls in recent years and provided our Cats with a generous path to Final Four Nirvana. Unfortunately, we haven't taken advantage of our generous seeding and path to the F4. Maybe this will be the year. Of course, generous path or not, it just takes one bad matchup to send a team packing for home. This year, good guards that can create off the dribble and score the basket(like TA&M) will likely be our demise.