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Message: [QUOTE="uh-no, post: 4886376, member: 12993"] Yes, but data has shown that such margins are predictive in value. IF we want to be #1 in efficiency metrics, we need to do better in some of those games. There's no conspiracy here. I can't speak for NET since it has all sorts of weird crap in it, but there are two major things that repress uconn's efficiency metrics WRT houston: 1) houston's SoS is about a point better. That's more than half the difference between our two ratings 2) despite both teams playing at a glacial pace overall, houston is about a possession slower than uconn, meaning if uconn and houston were to both beat the same team by, say, 10 points, houston would get more credit for having built that 10 point margin in fewer possessions. These two things almost surely explain effectively the entirety of the difference in raw efficiency. This is all academic, though. Efficiency metrics aren't be-all-end-all....and naturally uconn looks by far the best of the top teams right now. All it does is tell us is that houston, uconn, purdue, and arizona are pretty much head and shoulders above the rest, and despite some of the musings that we'll beat them easily (which we might), they're apt to put up a good fight. Splitting hairs between 1 or 4 is a bit silly, IMO. [/QUOTE]