Virginia Basketball Ranked 5th in Preseason Kenpom Ratings

KenPom.com, broadly thought of the gold commonplace for superior effectivity statistics in faculty basketball, launched its preseason rankings for the 2022-2023 males’s basketball season this weekend. After lacking the NCAA Event for the primary time since 2013 final season, KenPom expects the Virginia Cavaliers to be among the many greatest groups within the nation this season. 

UVA got here in at No. 5 out of 363 Division 1 males’s basketball groups in KenPom’s preseason rankings for adjusted effectivity margin, a projection metric primarily based on the distinction between a staff’s adjusted offensive effectivity (factors scored per 100 possessions) and adjusted defensive effectivity (factors allowed per 100 possessions). KenPom tasks Virginia to have an adjusted offensive effectivity of 111.5 factors per 100 possessions, which ranks 14th, and an adjusted defensive effectivity of 85.4 factors allowed per 100 possessions, which ranks 4th. 

UVA’s adjusted effectivity margin of +25.73 ranks fifth total. 

KenPom’s prime 5 faculty basketball groups:

1. Kentucky (+29.77)
2. Texas (+28.40)
3. Gonzaga (+27.68)
4. Tennessee (+27.10)
5. Virginia (+25.73)

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Virginia can also be the highest-ranked ACC staff within the preseason KenPom rankings:

1. Virginia (fifth)
2. North Carolina (ninth)
3. Duke (fifteenth)
4. Virginia Tech (twenty first)
5. Miami (forty second)
6. Notre Dame (forty third)
7. Syracuse (54th)
8. Clemson (sixtieth)
9. Florida State (sixty fifth)
10. Boston School (74th)
11. Wake Forest (eightieth)
12. NC State (81st)
13. Pittsburgh (84th)
14. Louisville (91st)
15. Georgia Tech (117th)

After all, KenPom predicts Virginia to play on the slowest tempo in all of school basketball with an adjusted tempo of 65.1 possessions per 40 minutes, which ranks 363rd. 

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