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[QUOTE="JustbrewitMan, post: 5218293, member: 7806"]
I've said it before. It's pretty simple. The biggest driver of both KenPom and Torvik rankings is the difference between AdjO and AdjD. They both do some proprietary behind-the-scenes adjustments to account for pace, strength of opponent, etc., etc. But the fact they are so similar in their rankings tells you their ranking are mainly driven by AdjO/AdjD.

Gonzaga's losses against bad conference teams and OOC were generally close. Then, they kicked the absolute crap out of the rest of the bad WCC teams. Their AdjO/AdjD has held steady in conference play, whereas many teams in tough conferences play closer games with more variance and may not sustain or may actually have decreased AdjEff over the course of conference play. Duke has benefitted from a historically weak ACC to rise to the top of the KP/Torvik charts.

People with basic critical thinking skills (heck, even Lunardi!) can see thru the ruse and have adjusted their tourney seeding accodingly.
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