It happens every year. The KenPom’s and Bart Torvik’s of the world will have a handful of teams that they simply don’t line up with where bracketologists place them. Let’s look at some of those teams this year, and why there’s such a chasm.
The Analytical Darlings
The analytical darlings are essentially teams who are ranked highly on KenPom who aren’t getting the same love by bracket makers for a multitude of reasons. We’ll start this off with perhaps the most glaring example of this in Columbus, Ohio.
Ohio State is in an absolute calamity of a free fall as they’ve lost nine of their last ten games.