Basketball Prospectus final conference breakdowns...*

[ksu_FAN]

The final numbers are in for major conferences + MoValley based on points per possession. 

                  

Big 12: Pay No Mind to That Team Between Kansas and Texas                                     

                     Pace    PPP     Opp. PPP      EM
1.  Kansas           69.2    1.16    0.92   +0.24
2.  Kansas St.       70.2    1.11    1.01   +0.10
3.  Texas            65.3    1.09    1.00   +0.09
4.  Baylor           72.2    1.08    1.07   +0.01
5.  Texas A&M        63.6    1.01    1.01    0.00
6.  Oklahoma St.     64.6    1.02    1.03   -0.01
7.  Oklahoma         63.6    1.01    1.03   -0.02
8.  Nebraska         64.1    0.98    1.02   -0.04
9.  Missouri         69.4    1.04    1.10   -0.06
10. Iowa St.         66.9    0.92    1.02   -0.10
11. Texas Tech       70.4    0.97    1.08   -0.11
12. Colorado         61.4    0.97    1.10   -0.13


Behold the limits of stats. The numbers here say Kansas State is the second-best team in the conference. You and I know that's not the case. The Wildcats have declined steadily since winning at home against Kansas on January 30. Chalk the numerical illusion here up to a spectacular first five games in-conference. Even over their last 11 contests, though, K-State played well enough to rate as the Big 12's third-best team. They just haven't played anywhere near as well as we, and doubtless they, thought they would based on those first five games.

Again, our defensive numbers (even with our great stretch) turned our pretty nice considering how often you watch us and it looks like our defense is really struggling, especially with help defense.

*IMHO, this is still interesting with or without Rusty.

[kougar24]

ku is really good. Systematically destroying them was so damn impressive.

[ksu_FAN]

ku is really good. Systematically destroying them was so damn impressive.

Yeah, and they were exceptionally good of destroying the teams they were supposed to destroy.  That's what impressed me the most, they hardly ever "play down" to their competition, perhaps OSU being the only time.  For example, UT was really good too as we saw in Manhattan, but even they had struggles against teams they should destroy, namely CU and NU at home and at ISU.