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Originally Posted by Darryl

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This is something I've been thinking about since I saw the pre-season all-conference and all-American teams come out and saw what is in my opinion an under-representation of UK players on these lists. So I just decided to do what is probably a too-long, very geeky article and get it out once and for all.

A few years back I bought into the idea of tempo-free stats as espoused by Dean Oliver, Ken Pomeroy and others being a preferable method of gauging performance than raw numbers. ...

In many ways, Kentucky and Texas are mirror images of one another, with UK a little better in most areas.

Although John Calipari discussed Texas' team speed earlier in the week, neither UK nor Texas have played fast so far. UK is averaging 65.2 possessions/game, good for 232nd nationally in adjusted tempo. Texas is playing even slower, averaging 64.4 possessions/game (263rd nationally in adjusted tempo).

With both teams, the slow pace is largely due to their opponents ...

Originally Posted by Darryl

If Final 4 Wins are the strongest indicator of conference strength (which I don't agree with) the SEC looks very good. From 1995-2014 (20 years) here are the Final 4 wins by conference:

14 SEC (Kentucky 8, Florida 5, Arkansas 1)

12 ACC (Duke 5, North Carolina 4, Maryland 2, Georgia Tech 1)

11 Big East (UConn 6 as the 2 wins last year they were in the AAC, Syracuse 3, Louisville 2)

7 Big 10 (Michigan State 3, Indiana 1, Illinois 1, Ohio

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Originally Posted by Darrell KSR

Who would you throw all your efforts into getting?

I'm going to post 9 candidates, and a 10th "Other." There are a ton of potential candidates. I am like most people, I hope this is premature and we don't have to visit this for real for a decade. But let's assume the worst, and we have to decide it now.

Who do you go guns-a-blazing for?

Choice should be realistic. I'm going to put Tom Izzo on my list, as he's been mentioned in discussions in

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