Andy Katz has State at #33 in his Power 37 rankings

[TaleofTwoDogs]

The school up north is #32

Kentucky surges in latest men's basketball Power 37

Kentucky men's basketball jumped 10 spots in Andy Katz's latest Power 37 rankings.

www.ncaa.com

 

[57stratdawg]

Too low. We’re a top 25 team, IMO

 

[HuntDawg]

If we earn it, i'm sure we'll eventually get there. We have some opporunties in the near future to do so.

Our net is currently 31, so Katz is in the ballpark for sure.

 

[Faustdog]

Too low. We’re a top 25 team, IMO

We can be. Issue is our bigs are bad (outside of Matthews if you want to count him as a big) and Jans's ability to coach offense is still up in the air.

I think we're probably top 30 with the caveat that if our guards are hot we can beat anyone.

 

[OG Goat Holder]

Issue is our bigs are bad

Bad? That's a little strong....

 

[Faustdog]

Bad? That's a little strong....

Hope you're right. We'll see when we play the half SEC teams.

On a positive note, it looks like someone finally convinced Murphy he shouldn't shoot anything outside of four feet.

 

[Willow Grove Dawg]

We are top 20-25 but unfortunately there are probably 10 SEC in the top 35ish. The SEC schedule will be a gauntlet this season.

 

[MSUDC11-2.0]

KenPom has us 27, which is only good for 8th in the SEC if that tells you anything about how difficult SEC play is gonna be, not just for us but for everyone.

We will keep learning some things soon. All of our next four opponents are in the Top 90. Heck, Pitt comes to the Hump in a couple of weeks and they are 15 per KenPom.

 

[HuntDawg]

KenPom has us 27, which is only good for 8th in the SEC if that tells you anything about how difficult SEC play is gonna be, not just for us but for everyone.

We will keep learning some things soon. All of our next four opponents are in the Top 90. Heck, Pitt comes to the Hump in a couple of weeks and they are 15 per KenPom.

yeah extremely frusterating schedule. You're seeing the top tier sec teams go out and play challenging schedules... this 4 game stretchc isnt bad.. but still we should bite off more.

We really wont know who we truly are until 4-6 gamees into sec play

 

[MSUDC11-2.0]

yeah extremely frusterating schedule. You're seeing the top tier sec teams go out and play challenging schedules... this 4 game stretchc isnt bad.. but still we should bite off more.

We really wont know who we truly are until 4-6 gamees into sec play

Positive this year is we’re not having to play a bunch of the big dogs twice. Only Bama. Everyone else we play once. I think last year we played Bama, Auburn, and Kentucky twice in the regular season, plus SC who was having a strong year.