The Most Overrated, Inconsistent & Possibly Slightly Fraudulent Teams in College Basketball

Based on teamrankings data

THURSDAY DATA DIVE - January 8th Edition

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Using data from teamrankings.com, I’ve determined that there are still a lot of teams we can’t fully trust yet in college basketball.

Some teams seem overrated by pollsters and overhyped by their own fanbase or by the media in general, some teams are genuinely impossible to predict, they might look like prime 2015 Kentucky, or prime 2021 IUPUI, and some teams just haven’t played a hard enough schedule to truly judge them against their peers.

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