Basketball NET / KenPom rankings for the 2025 season
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I'm hoping this is the bottom of the barrel. They have an opportunity to go 3-4 from here on out. Hopefully they can pull it off.
They really need to win on Sunday.
I would hope you’re right but it concerns me how many people are just counting most of these upcoming games as easy. Metrics only have us favored in two the rest of the way. We could blow one. We could also upset one. Two more wins seems safe. However if we lose to a bad big ten team on the road by a large margin we might drop below 169 at some point.
Penn State has played several ncaa big 10 schools down to the wire. Competiton eases but these schools also feel Rutgers is an opportunity to pick up a victory
Its not going to be like Michigan State sleepwalking or USC implosion. Evenly matched games where you hope RU can split with and then grab one of at Minn/Was
Coming probaby next week with a first look but likely on a smaller scale
Maryland hosts Iowa tonight so they still could fall below RU
I watched the 2nd half of the Maryland-Iowa game. I give credit to UMD for having a good game, but Iowa's shots from the perimeter simply weren't going down. They had "one of those games" and UMD took full advantage.
After starting conference play 1-10, UMD has gotten off the mat and picked up Q1 and Q2 wins. Are they getting their act together just in time to come into the RAC, or will RU defend their home court against a team that is only marginally better?
alot of the dregs are playing each other alot late in the season and the Big 10 likely did it by design. Penn State beat Washington last night as well and get Oregon this weekend and 2 cracks at Rutgers. Sometimes the heady performances that bad teams show against superior teams is not duplicated when meeting teams of their own level. Rutgers 2 wins were both overtime struggles and I am bit concerned that they do not or ARE NOT capable of putting teams away and thus every game is a dogfight to the end. On the flip side, Maryland is likely to suffer the proverbial let down going on the road after notching a big upset
Another example of a similar team doing what we couldn’t. RU at Iowa was within our grasp, down only 2 points with less than a minute to go. Then we couldn’t finish off MSU at our place the way MN did by 3 points.
Yes, I know we struggled in our 2 B1G wins, but well-coached teams find a way to overachieve and beat Iowa and MSU and not lose to CCSU.
Had we gotten those 3 wins, we’d be looking at possibly finishing with a .500 record and getting some type of postseason invite.
Yes I know, if my grandmother had wheels, yada yada…
Rutgers shoots up to #155 but that still leaves them behind Maryland now at #151. However Rutgers is no longer the worst rated power 5 as that distinction goes to Georgia Tech at #165. Note Boston College is at #152
Rutgers sos which was at 15 coming into the Maryland game only slipped to 18. The non conference sos is 248.
RU is 0-11 vs Quad 1, 0-3 vs Quad 2, 4-0 in Quad 3, and 6-1 in Quad 4. Rutgers is 0-11 vs schools currently projected into the field
Rutgers sos which was at 15 coming into the Maryland game only slipped to 18. The non conference sos is 248.
RU is 0-11 vs Quad 1, 0-3 vs Quad 2, 4-0 in Quad 3, and 6-1 in Quad 4. Rutgers is 0-11 vs schools currently projected into the field
Some teams are full of surprises. But you can make the argument that Rutgers games have gone as expected 24 out of 25 times. I'm guessing with the next two games being on the road, they qualify at Q2 opportunities. That doesn't bode well.
Just took a quick scan of the NET rankings, and noticed this wacky thing:
East Tennessee State is ahead of us, with a 129 NET. They have played 19(!) Quad 4 games and have lost 5(!) of them. Their other 3 wins are in Quad 3, with no wins in Quad 1 or 2, same as us.
East Tennessee State is ahead of us, with a 129 NET. They have played 19(!) Quad 4 games and have lost 5(!) of them. Their other 3 wins are in Quad 3, with no wins in Quad 1 or 2, same as us.
That's an interesting observation. No good wins and 5 bad losses. Seems like their resume exposes flaws in the NET system for that resume to be anywhere above 200.
I was checking out Central Connecticut State's NET. They are pretty bad but they have these two glaring wins over BC and Rutgers. They single handedly buried both programs' NET ranking.
yep. The Central Connecticut State performance...not so much the loss drives the bad ranking. Rutgers lost this game by 13. The efficiency numbers offensively must have been brutal from the game. Throw in additional poor efficiency games vs Penn, Delaware State, American, Lehigh, Merrimack and that is a lead anchor on your metrics.
Rutgers glides up to #150 moving them ahead of #151 Maryland, #156 Boston College, and #169 Georgia Tech. Penn State drops to #133 completing the bottom 5 power 5 schools.
Yesterday, I emailed a vendor that was 3 days late in getting a license to me. One second after I pressed send, I got the email with the license. It's crazy how minutes/hours/days can go by and yet so frequently this happens to me.
Rutgers falls to 156. RU is still ahead of Boston College and Georgia Tech but has fallen below Maryland and is the worst rated Big 10 school.
right now Missouri who is at 57, 9-9 in Q1/2, 9-6 vs the field is an oddity for the net
also USC at 63 last in or last out according to many
Rutgers falls to 160. BC moves to #156. Rutgers is now the 2nd worst rated Power 5 school.
Rutgers is the only Big 10 school without a quad 1 victory