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Here’s a new article on Ken Pomeroy’s coaching ratings. Basically, he looks at a coach’s career and quantifies how much their teams’ final rankings differ from his model’s preseason rankings. Hurley rates 7th overall, 21st on offense, and 12th on defense...

Boy is there a lot of UConn stuff in this. Also, I didn’t realize so many people wrote for the site. No wonder their stuff is all over my Twitter. Highlights: They really, really love Mullins. Many of them are also high on Reed (first round pick talk). Mixed opinions on Karaban, but some...

Funniest poll in Boneyard history, thank God we don’t know anything.

Tyrese made the Nets. What a success story. Even The Boneyard didn’t see this coming.

It looks like Andre is staying with the Bucks. I have to admit I was skeptical. Good for him.

Right over Wiseman. He is so good.

Here is Steph’s second-best dunk of the night so far.

The downside of taking the train from New Haven is that it’s a long ride with a lot of stops. I take it out of Stamford. You can get a train that goes straight into the city with no stops until Harlem, but sometimes it’s crowded by the time it gets to Stamford. A lot of your decision might...

And of course he posted this year’s article right after I posted here. Last year’s ratings were good as well! https://open.substack.com/pub/kenpom/p/preseason-ratings-are-here?r=3obil&utm_medium=ios

While preseason predictions are not perfect and there will always be teams who drastically overperform or underperform, there is typically a strong correlation between Ken Pomeroy’s preseason rankings and final rankings. Here are two of his articles - one about the strong correlation despite the...

Erik Haslam’s projections are also out. He has UConn at #3, St. John’s at #15, and Creighton at #19. https://www.haslametrics.com/

It’s really not great for the conference that we only have two teams ranked in the top 40. If I’m trying to be optimistic, having no really bad teams will help. We will have a chances at decent wins in the conference, and very few opportunities for catastrophic losses. This was definitely the...

Favored in every game! No, that doesn’t mean we’re projected to go undefeated. We’re projected to go 26-6 overall, and 16-4 in the Big East.

Troy Weaver loves DMV guys, so Hawk might be good regardless. Of course, he might be better off in another organization. They’re kind of a mess.

Hopefully. As of now, I don’t think he has a spot in Milwaukee, so he needs to get moved to a new team first. I could see a team taking a flyer on him as a bench player.