Nowadays analytics are getting more and more popular in college basketball and predictive analytics that used to be used by the most forward-thinking coaching staffs are now commonplace in discussion among fans, such as the NCAA’s NET ranking or KenPom, a metric that gets referenced nearly as much as a team’s record. ESPN’s strength of record, Sagarin, Haslametrics, and Massey ratings have all gotten more and more play recently and there’s a good reason why—they help contextualize just how good a team is in the scheme of over 350 division one teams that would never have the chance to play each other.