

(Photo: James Black/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) vs Louisville | Saturday, December 31īefore you ring in the new year on New Year’s Eve, Kentucky will host Louisville in the first meeting of the new John Calipari-Kenny Payne rivalry. UCLA has won three of four in the blue-blooded rivalry since 2015. The ‘Cats drew the Bruins in the second game this time around, marking the first meeting since the 2017 CBS Sports Classic. The CBS Sports Classic heads to New York this December for its annual doubleheader with regular participants Kentucky, UCLA, Ohio State, and North Carolina. Tickets are very widely available-like, very widely available.
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Two years after its original date, Kentucky will make the trip to London for the first game of the three-year series with Michigan. (Photo: The Image Bank/Getty Images) vs Michigan | Sunday, December 4 Last season, Bellarmine was snubbed from the NCAA Tournament despite winning the ASUN conference tournament and its automatic NCAA Tournament bid. vs Bellarmine | Tuesday, November 29įinally, Kentucky will host Bellarmine for the first time in school history when Scotty Davenport brings his Knights to Rupp Arena on Tuesday, November 29. Oscar Tshiebwe versus Drew Timme should be fun. It’s the Sunday after Kentucky Football hosts Georgia in Lexington.

I stopped looking after the 70s.- John Calipari August 4, 2022 I tried to look back and find the last time UK played in a true regular-season road game with 6,000 or fewer fans. Nearby Spokane Arena will host the marquee matchup of top-five teams rather than the 6,000-seat “New Kennel” where the ‘Zags normally play their home games.Īnybody that wants us to play in a 6,000-seat facility, wants us to lose! And I get that. Kentucky will play in maybe the biggest game of the entire college basketball season when John Calipari flies his team across the country to play at Gonzaga. (Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images) at Gonzaga | Sunday, November 20 Last season, Kentucky won the first-ever meeting between the two schools, 86-52, on the day before Thanksgiving. vs North Florida | Friday, November 18ĭays after the team returns from Indianapolis, the ‘Cats will host the North Florida Ospreys for a second straight season that Friday night. Still, the Spartans will be a veteran bunch. Michigan State is a fringe preseason Top 25 team with some unexpected summer departures. However, this year’s Classic is a week later than its traditional start date on the first day of the college basketball season. Tom Izzo’s Spartans are this year’s Champions Classic opponent at the Indianapolis rotation of the event’s host sites. (Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images) vs Michigan State | Tuesday, November 15 The Dukes went 6-24 last year for a dead-last finish in the A-10 with one conference win. vs Duquesne | TBDĪccording to respected schedule-breaker Jon Rothstein, Duquesne is among the opponents headed to Rupp Arena in 2022-23 although, it’s unclear when. The y-axis in this graph represents the percentage weight of the score that gets applied to an overall team ranking.Yale was a tournament team last March after winning the Ivy League conference tournament. You can see that the area under the curve gets smaller both as the rating for a commit decreases and as the number of total commits for a school increases. This standard deviation creates a bell curve with an inflection point near the average number of players recruited per team.īelow is a graphical representation of how our formula works. Readers familiar with the Gaussian distribution formula will note that we use a varying value for σ based on the standard deviation for the total number of commits between schools for the given sport. This formula ensures that all commits contribute at least some value to the team's score without heavily rewarding teams that have several more commitments than others. You can think of a team's point score as being the sum of ratings of all the team's commits where the best recruit is worth 100% of his rating value, the second best recruit is worth nearly 100% of his rating value, down to the last recruit who is worth a small fraction of his rating value.

In order to create the most comprehensive Team Recruiting Ranking without any notion of bias, 247Sports Team Recruiting Ranking is solely based on the 247Sports Composite Rating.Įach recruit is weighted in the rankings according to a Gaussian distribution formula (a bell curve), where a team's best recruit is worth the most points. Where c is a specific team's total number of commits and R n is the 247Sports Composite Rating of the nth-best commit times 100.
