NOTE: Excerpts used in this article were taken from a conversation that first aired on the Talking Grammer podcast earlier this week.
He doesn’t hate your team.
Honestly.
And his computer doesn’t really know what a team, or a basketball for the matter, even is.
If you’re a college basketball fan even slightly above the “casual” level, odds are you have heard of “KenPom” or the highly influential college basketball ratings website, KenPom.com, named after founder Ken Pomeroy.
The former meteorologist-turned-hoops statistics guru whose system of ranking every Division I men’s college basketball team — there are 363 of those this season — recently sat down for a podcast interview to talk about the basics of his site, how teams like New Mexico and New Mexico State get ranked where they do and how he sometimes has become the focus of scorn from fan bases.