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Order restored. The conference overlords are back atop their natural pecking order.
Order restored. Frankuary is here and the Cats are what we expected: above .500 and tearing people's faces off.
Order restored. What's about to become one of the SEC's worst basketball programs has slid back into ninth place.
Order restored. Missouri currently sucks, always has sucked and always will suck. At success. At life. At everything.
Seed* | Record* | Tourney* | RPI | Pomeroy | Sagarin | Streak | Best Win** | Worst Loss** | Coach | |
Kansas | 1 | 16-2 | NCAA | 6 | 4 | 3 | W-5 | Ohio State | Davidson | Bill Self |
Missouri | 2 | 14-4 | NCAA | 13 | 9 | 8 | L-1 | Kansas | Oklahoma State | Frank Haith |
Baylor | 3 | 12-6 | NCAA | 9 | 15 | 14 | W-1 | San Diego State | Kansas State | Scott Drew |
Iowa State | 4 | 11-7 | NCAA | 43 | 34 | 35 | W-2 | Kansas | Drake | Fred Hoiberg |
Kansas State | 5 | 11-7 | NCAA | 41 | 20 | 20 | W-2 | Baylor | Oklahoma (2) | Frank Martin |
Texas | 6 | 9-9 | Bubble | 55 | 25 | 21 | L-2 | Temple | Oregon State | Rick Barnes |
Oklahoma State | 7 | 7-11 | None | 110 | 95 | 94 | L-1 | Missouri | Texas A&M | Travis Ford |
Oklahoma | 8 | 5-13 | None | 115 | 101 | 91 | W-1 | Kansas State (2) | Texas Tech | Lon Kruger |
Texas A&M | 9 | 4-14 | None | 159 | 107 | 110 | L-2 | Oklahoma State | Rice | Billy Kennedy |
Texas Tech | 10 | 1-17 | None | 226 | 240 | 217 | L-3 | Oklahoma | DePaul | Billy Gillispie |
Note: As any of these numbers change, I will bold and color-code them to indicate direction of change.
Team names that are colored indicate a change in seed.
(green = upward, red = downward)
*Predicted
**According to RealTimeRPI
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Discussion
Gee, now look who's the hottest team in the league.
Winning five in a row is impressive, but the most impactful two-game winning streak belongs to the Cats. In the span of a week, they've gone from the bubble to national buzzword.
And Texas has suffered entirely the opposite trajectory, with the most impactful two-game losing streak in the conference virtually popping its bubble.
Remember a week ago, when this feature had the Longhorns winning two games more than K-State, which then was mired in a two-game losing streak with no relief in sight? My, how things can change in eight days.
Finally, a polite golf clap for Oklahoma, which snapped the second-longest losing streak in the conference by beating Oklahoma State. Now Texas Tech can re-assume its rightful place as the king of derpathetic.
GAMER: Now has Missouri losing at Kansas.
Pomeroy: No changes.
Sagarin: No changes.
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Self-Evaluation
As with gravity, what goes up must come down. A 5-0 week must always be followed by a 3-2 effort, eh?
Still, given which games this thing blew this week, I'll take it in a heartbeat. I much prefer looking down the standings at Texas and winning consecutive road games against top-10 foes to the depressing alternative.
Once again, OUTLOOK is all in on the home teams, save for the pillow fight layup Texas gets to experience.
If there is to be an upset, Iowa State in Manhattan unfortunately looks like the likeliest candidate.
I fully expect KU to eviscerate Missouri one last time for old times' sake, while Oklahoma should not pose a challenge to Baylor.
Texas A&M might be able to slop one out in Stillwater, but Oklahoma State plays about 200 percent better at home than it does anywhere else.
Plus, you really have to question whether the Aggies' hearts still are in it at this point.
Cumulative pick record: 58-17 (.773)
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Key
Results are plugged into this wonderful tool to generate the predicted records and seed order. Winners are predicted by a best-of-three system comprising three statistical prediction models:
- G — RealTimeRPI GAMER (an advanced statistical prediction model, claiming 76.8-percent accuracy)
- P — Ken Pomeroy's rankings (predicts a probability outcome for each game remaining)
- S — Sagarin pure points predictor rankings (home-court advantage is taken into account)
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Predicted Outcomes
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