David Hess

Honestly, Abe... 👀

I'm going to #NESSIS this week -- my first time. Anybody else gonna be there?

2023 College Basketball Preseason Rankings & Ratings For All 362 Teams Purdue tops our 2023 college basketball preseason rankings, while several Final Four teams from a year ago are rated lower in our rankings.

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Thanks for the data. I'm not shocked that voters in this are good at keeping their homerism in check.

To be fair, you only did it after explaining you were in dire need of a whipping tool, and the store manager not even giving two forks.

Did you attempt to do anything to take into account which team voters have marked as their favorite? I assume not, because who knows what the effect is. But I noticed several non elite teams in the KP top 10 most popular list are ranged higher in HUMAN than Torvik (Indiana, Illinois, Virginia).

H.U.M.A.N. poll top 30

Here's the top 30 of the H.U.M.A.N. poll. Rating has no meaning other than a relative measure of team preference. The full list and more analysis coming soon!