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[QUOTE="Brochacho, post: 4818590, member: 705"]
Kenpom #1 wins the title more often than not (13 of the last 23). Of course, we have to see if Houston remains at #1 since the season is only about 25% complete for teams that will play deep into March. I don't disagree that there isn't much difference between UNC, Gonzaga, Tennessee and Alabama, but KP is a good metric and as of right now, they're better than UNC until they aren't. H2H is less relevant in my eyes: if Arkansas Pine-Bluff are they better than UConn? No. Good teams lose games and bad teams beat good teams over the course of a season.  Purdue is 4-1 vs Q1 and 2-0 vs Q2 whereas UConn is 1-1 and 1-0 vs the same quadrants.

I'd also like to point out that our strength of victory and overall schedule isn't too different from Houston's at this point. We've played bigger brands, but they are 3-0 in Q1. They've only played 1 more Q4 game than UConn. Average KP rating of their top 100 wins: 46.67. UConn average rating of top 100 wins: 42.67. Our top 3 wins have come at MSG which we like to brag is a home court for UConn, while theirs have come at two neutral locations and on the road.
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