{"id":220579,"date":"2025-10-13T03:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/220579\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T03:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:22:10","slug":"kentucky-wildcats-basketball-in-top-5-of-preseason-kenpom-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/220579\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Wildcats Basketball in top 5 of preseason KenPom rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now that Big Blue Madness \u2014 what a night that was inside Rupp Arena \u2014 is in the books, it\u2019s time to turn our attention to preseason rankings, even though they really don\u2019t mean anything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">KenPom gave Kentucky an offensive rating of 120.1, which ranks eighth best in the country. However, the Pomeroy analytics system particularly likes the Cats defensively. They gave Kentucky a defensive rating of 91.2, which ranks fourth in the country, behind only Houston, Iowa State, and Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kentucky plays nine out of the other 24 ranked teams, and 10 if you include the preseason game against Purdue, which is just 12 short days away.<\/p>\n<p>KenPom Top 25 College Basketball Rankings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that Big Blue Madness \u2014 what a night that was inside Rupp Arena \u2014 is in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,575,398,400,401,99],"class_list":["post-220579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-kentucky-wildcats-basketball","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}