{"id":12555,"date":"2024-01-22T14:36:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T19:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=12555"},"modified":"2024-01-22T14:36:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T19:36:42","slug":"analytics-say-michigan-state-basketball-is-one-of-9-teams-that-can-win-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=12555","title":{"rendered":"Analytics say Michigan State basketball is one of 9 teams that can win it all"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Michigan State basketball is one of nine teams that can win it all according to analytics. What are the numbers saying?<\/h2>\n<p>The ultimate <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-basketball-takeaways-win-maryland\/\">Michigan State basketball<\/a>\u00a0goal every season is to win a national championship. Every program says that, but not every program necessarily means it. That just goes to show the greatness that MSU has risen to on a national stage that this is their ultimate goal every season.<\/p>\n<p>How realistic are Michigan State\u2019s chances of winning it all, though? Considering the start to the Spartans&#8217; season, you might think their chances are pretty low. That, however, isn\u2019t the case. In fact, looking at the data, MSU is one of nine teams that could win it all in the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<h3>Why is MSU one of nine teams who can win it all?<\/h3>\n<p>There\u2019s one specific set of data that tells us that only nine teams can win the NCAA tournament as of today. I\u2019m sure most of you have heard of KenPom, but this is an analytics tool that uses a large amount of data to rank college basketball teams and predict outcomes of games. Using this data source, there is one specific data set that tells us that MSU can win a national title.<\/p>\n<p>As of today, Michigan State is ranked as a top 40 KenPom offense and a top 22 KenPom defense. Why is this significant? Every national championship team since 2002 has met this criteria. That makes 21 straight NCAA champions that have met the above statistical criteria. Now I\u2019m not usually big on data suggesting outcomes like this, but it\u2019s hard to deny how reliable this is.<\/p>\n<p>As I\u2019ve mentioned, Michigan State is one of nine teams who currently meet this criteria. So, spoiler alert, if you don\u2019t want to know what few teams have a chance at winning it all then stop reading now.<\/p>\n<p>Houston, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arizona, Marquette, Auburn, Purdue, and BYU are the other eight teams that also meet this criteria.<\/p>\n<p>So if the NCAA Tournament began today, you should pick one of these nine teams to win it all.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Teams with a KenPom top 40 offense and top 22 defense:  <\/p>\n<p>Houston<br \/>Tennessee<br \/>North Carolina<br \/>Arizona<br \/>Auburn<br \/>Marquette<br \/>Purdue<br \/>BYU<br \/>Michigan State<\/p>\n<p>National Title Contenders.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; College Basketball Report (@CBKReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBKReport\/status\/1749456475288973794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019ll be interesting to see if this trend continues this season. But it will be even more interesting to see if Michigan State continues to meet this criteria throughout the season. For something that\u2019s been true for 21 straight tournaments, I really hope the Spartans stay on this list all season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What analytics favor MSU?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":12577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[59,190,189,504],"class_list":["post-12555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-featured","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}