SomeGuy
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Reg: 11-22-04
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02-04-19 06:46 PM - Post#275064
In response to mrjames
I think the back of the league is a lot stronger than it has ever been. I don’t think we’ve had a season with 5 top 200 teams, let alone 6. Only 2 teams last year were above where Dartmouth is right now in KenPom.
Now, Yale and Harvard are considerably stronger than Penn and Harvard last year, too, but I think the depth will wear on everybody.
The other question is whether the Princeton start holds up. If you look at it based on who has won so far, yes, the top 3 teams have only lost one game to teams outside the top 3. But that’s arguably circular. If you look at it based on what kenpom or similar systems would predict coming in (or even now if we started over), the top teams would include Brown and Penn, and you could argue there has been a lot more carnage. I think those types of results will hit Yale and Princeton as we go.
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