With another week passing by on the college basketball calendar, and each team playing about two games, we are leaning more and more about each teams profile ahead of the 2024 college basketball postseason.
Using advanced metric website KenPom, sports bettors have become more and more aware of the profile of a National Champion, which I outlined in the first installment of this weekly article. Typically, champions are balanced on both sides of the floor, and we are looking to key in on teams that can win with high powered offenses and lockdown defenses.
This article breaks down potential contenders into three buckets: bona fide contenders that are top 20 in both KenPom's adjusted offensive efficiency metric and defensive efficiency metric, just outside that threshold with the capability of playing into it, and teams that are lopsided and over reliant on being elite on one part, but not the other.