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Originally Posted by chuckleslovakian
Yep...
This year UK has to be one of the most "Can beat anyone, and can lose to anyone" teams of all time.
You absolutely do not want UK in your bracket, and yet you also won't be shocked if they somehow lose round 1.
The last 3 Beilein years at WV were pretty incredible.
They shot a billion threes and ran a full court 1-3-1 press the entire game. The other team would get a bunch of wide open dunks regardless of who they were, but they would also commit a bunch of turnovers. If WV made their threes, they were gonna win, if they didn't, they were gonna lose.
Their kenpom year end rankings were 35, 16 and 33. Their Kenpom rating was never that good because they didn't dominate bad teams (and even lost to sub-200 marshall twice), but for a team ranked in the 30s they absolutely could win any game they were in. They didn't actually LOSE that many games to bad teams, but they definitely could've, they would consistently beat godawful teams by like 4 points (hence their mid-30s rantings)
They were 5-5 against top-10 teams, and they were 14-5 in postseason play, coming up one shot short of the final 4 and elite 8 and then winning the NIT.