Interesting that playing the 57th team on a neutral site is a tier B game while playing the 96th time at home is a tier A game, especially in light of this quote from the blog entry: “It turns out those adjustments are important. Beating the 90th-ranked team on the road is about as difficult as beating the 50th-best team on a neutral floor…” Both games must be right on the edge of A-B tiers.
Oops, right, away for Illinois, which was really my point - it almost aligns perfectly with his example (50th/57th neutral vs. 90th/96th road), so that suggests the cutoff for tiers A and B is right around there, right?
Dylan am I wrong to think Nebraska could give Michigan problems next week on the road? They aren’t a terrific team by any means and yes it’s early but their offense has really been humming in conference play. Playing Rutgers/Minnesota will do that but every team with the exception of Iowa has played a bad team thus far.
Don’t think it’ll be an easy game. They are tough at home and have a good offense. Hard to get a great read on them though because they have played what seems like a weak Big Ten schedule.
I wish we would stop scheduling these terrible teams like Delaware State, Bryant and Houston Baptist, that are worse than 200 in KenPom. I don’t like that our SOS gets dragged down so much. Lets go back to scheduling some more of the local schools that at least usually reside between 150 200 on KenPom: Eastern/Western/Central Michigan, Toledo, Detroit, Depaul, Ball State, Milwaukee, Miami Ohio, Cleveland State.