Year in Review - 2024

[TEvans4Three]

I got bored.

Here are some heat maps looking at KenPom ORtg for the year with various filters put in:

Season



Wins



Losses



Conf play


Non-Con Play



Top-25 Games



Season Summary Average:



Total Season Ranking:

1. Soares
2. Godwin
3. Moore
4. Hugley IV
5. Darthard
6. McCollum
7. Oweh
8. Uzan


A couple of takeaways for me personally:

1. Soares was our best player by years end. In Top-25 games, conf play, and overall.
2. Uzan was our worst rated player offensively. Not good for our #2 guard.
3. McCollum was fairly consistently meh, same with Moore but Moore was a tad better with breakout games where it counted. Javian never had takeover games.
4. Hugley IV was not as bad as I remember, rating wise. Missing him for half of our top games was a huge blow. our 4th best player missing the best games...ugh.


Best Rated games of the year?

1. Darthard (212) @ OSU
2. Darthard (202) v. Iowa St
3. Oweh (201) v. UTRGV
4. Darthard (196) v. Green Bay
5. Moore (189) v. Monmouth
T6. Godwin (185) v. Central Michigan
T6. Soares (185) @. OSU
8. Moore (182) v. OSU
9. Godwin (176) v. Texas St.
10. Godwin (175) v. Houston


Breakout v. Subpar outings


(*If it is blank it means they either didn't play or didn't play enough to register a proper rating)

 

[WichitaSooner]

The only caveat worth adding on Hugley is that almost all of his quality games came in noncon and/or against the weaker conference teams. It would have been nice to have him down the stretch, but I’m not sure he makes a difference in winning or losing. Certainly not in the blowouts losses. And Houston was Sam’s best game, so it’s hard to see how Hugley could have done much better than Godwin in whatever minutes he would have gotten.

Overall, this paints a bleak picture. Soares absolutely was our best performer, so we were going to have a hard time replacing him. Add in now having to replace every other guard on the team, and it’s an even more difficult task.

 

[SoonerDutch]

Nothing new but crazy to see Oweh’s drop off from NC to conference play in ORth in excel form, just a massive let down.

 

[TEvans4Three]

The only caveat worth adding on Hugley is that almost all of his quality games came in noncon and/or against the weaker conference teams. It would have been nice to have him down the stretch, but I’m not sure he makes a difference in winning or losing. Certainly not in the blowouts losses. And Houston was Sam’s best game, so it’s hard to see how Hugley could have done much better than Godwin in whatever minutes he would have gotten.

Overall, this paints a bleak picture. Soares absolutely was our best performer, so we were going to have a hard time replacing him. Add in now having to replace every other guard on the team, and it’s an even more difficult task.

I can appreciate the input.

Will counter with, Hugley had 10 conference games. 8 of those he was never below a 105 ORtg. I tend to lean 90-100 being average, heck you could even extend it to 80-110 and he was still an above average player in half the conference play based on a generous rating scale.

So I will slightly disagree with you here, respectfully. Even if it means Hugley comes in instead of Luke Northweather.

 

[TEvans4Three]

Did some SEC historical rank analysis via KenPom rankings.

Looking at the last 20 yrs, 10 yrs, 5 yrs, and KP overall program rating.



Oklahoma is:
-4th in the SEC over the last 20 years
-3rd in the SEC over the last 10 years
-4th in the SEC over the last 5 years
-6th in the SEC in KenPom program history rating

Not as bad as I thought it might look, very interesting to consider.

*Edit to add: Texas bumps us down a rank in each when added (just forgot)