Last night was ugly but all is not lost. Here are my primary takeaways from last nights game.
Managing Expectations
First and foremost, I feel that it’s important that we contextualize the realistic range of outcomes for this team. I debated writing a preseason post about the predictive power of preseason analytical rankings for a team with such a low percentage of returning minutes. After doing some preliminary research the answer was essentially that it’s all over the board, and without a clear correlation I decided against writing anything. Kenpom’s preseason ranking of 93 felt more like a reasonable rating for where UB could be by season’s end rather than a starting point.