{"id":491,"date":"2016-12-07T21:11:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T21:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicscentral.com\/peltoncast\/?p=491"},"modified":"2016-12-07T21:11:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T21:11:36","slug":"youth-isnt-served-in-college-hoops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicscentral.com\/peltoncast\/2016\/12\/07\/youth-isnt-served-in-college-hoops\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Isn&#8217;t Served in College Hoops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a frustrating start for the Washington Husky men&#8217;s basketball team, which is 4-3 entering tonight&#8217;s game in Spokane against Gonzaga, the first matchup between the two teams in the state of Washington in nearly a decade. (They resumed their series a year ahead of time in the 2015 Battle 4 Atlantis.)<\/p>\n<p>In the context of the UW roster, and specifically its youth, I don&#8217;t think much about how the Huskies started should be surprising.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-player rotation on which <strong>Lorenzo Romar<\/strong> has settled includes three freshmen, four sophomores and senior <strong>Malik Dime<\/strong>, a JC transfer with just one year of Division I experience.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, KenPom.com calculates the Huskies as having 0.98 years of weighted experience &#8212; that is, the average minute is played by a player with about one year of D-I experience &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/kenpom.com\/height.php?s=ExpRank\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>which ranks 341st of the 351 D-I programs<\/strong><\/a>. Looking around the six biggest conferences, similar teams haven&#8217;t (with one notable exception) been any more successful than UW.<\/p>\n<div id=\"viz1480982126498\" class=\"tableauPlaceholder\" style=\"position: relative;\"><noscript><a href='#'><img alt='Experience vs. Success\u2028via KenPom.com ' src='https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/static\/images\/NC\/NCAAExperience\/Sheet1\/1_rss.png' style='border: none' \/><\/a><\/noscript><object class=\"tableauViz\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><param name=\"host_url\" value=\"https%3A%2F%2Fpublic.tableau.com%2F\" \/><param name=\"site_root\" value=\"\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"NCAAExperience\/Sheet1\" \/><param name=\"tabs\" value=\"no\" \/><param name=\"toolbar\" value=\"yes\" \/><param name=\"static_image\" value=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/static\/images\/NC\/NCAAExperience\/Sheet1\/1.png\" \/><param name=\"animate_transition\" value=\"yes\" \/><param name=\"display_static_image\" value=\"yes\" \/><param name=\"display_spinner\" value=\"yes\" \/><param name=\"display_overlay\" value=\"yes\" \/><param name=\"display_count\" value=\"yes\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript'>                    var divElement = document.getElementById('viz1480982126498');                    var vizElement = divElement.getElementsByTagName('object')[0];                    vizElement.style.width='100%';vizElement.style.height=(divElement.offsetWidth*0.75)+'px';                    var scriptElement = document.createElement('script');                    scriptElement.src = 'https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/javascripts\/api\/viz_v1.js';                    vizElement.parentNode.insertBefore(scriptElement, vizElement);                <\/script><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the five other major-conference teams with less than a year of weighted experience have started.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tennessee<\/strong> is 4-3 and ranks 86th in the KenPom rankings<\/li>\n<li><strong>Iowa<\/strong> is 4-5 and ranks 87th, having lost at home to No. 156 Nebraska Omaha<\/li>\n<li><strong>Missouri<\/strong> is 5-3 and ranked 145th, having lost at home to No. 197 North Carolina Central<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kentucky<\/strong> is 7-1 and ranked 5th<\/li>\n<li><strong>St. John&#8217;s<\/strong> is 4-5 and lost five consecutive games (including No. 328 Delaware State at home) at one point, dropping to No. 114<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mississippi State<\/strong> is 6-2 but ranks just 119th, having beaten no team ranked in the top 100<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aside from <strong>John Calipari<\/strong>, who has established an NBA pipeline populated by premier one-and-done talent (including four of last year&#8217;s McDonald&#8217;s All-Americans), nobody else has found more success with as little experience as the Huskies, who currently rank 90th via KenPom.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I know what you&#8217;re saying: None of those teams have one of the nation&#8217;s top freshmen either. Of course, there&#8217;s an easy example that one such star isn&#8217;t enough to guarantee competitiveness: last year&#8217;s <strong>LSU<\/strong> team, which was 4-3 and ranked 99th by KenPom at the same point of the season and ended up missing the NCAA tournament despite the presence of No. 1 overall pick <strong>Ben Simmons<\/strong>. (At 1.1 weighted years, the Tigers had a little more experience than UW.)<\/p>\n<p>Top prospects like Simmons and Washington&#8217;s <strong>Markelle Fultz<\/strong>, who&#8217;s lived up to every bit of the hype so far, are fun to watch. But unless you have them in bunches, they don&#8217;t tend to translate into team success without the kind of experienced teammates the Huskies lack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a frustrating start for the Washington Husky men&#8217;s basketball team, which is 4-3 entering tonight&#8217;s game in Spokane against Gonzaga, the first matchup between the two teams in the state of Washington in nearly a decade. 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