The Michigan Wolverines are into the second year of the Juwan Howard era and so far, so good. After a promising debut season (that was unfortunately cut short to COVID-19) and holding the No. 1 haul of players thus far in the 2021 recruiting class, fan excitement and support is about as strong as it ever has been.
Still, as fans of a traditionally strong football school, basketball can be a foreign language at times, especially when people start throwing advanced stats into the picture. Among them is Ken Pomeroy’s advanced metric system (better known as KenPom), which is probably the most popular set of metrics cited in the college basketball sphere.