{"id":504,"date":"2011-03-02T02:50:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T08:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/the-kpoy-let-tournament-play-begin\/"},"modified":"2011-03-02T02:50:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T08:50:20","slug":"the-kpoy-let-tournament-play-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/the-kpoy-let-tournament-play-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"The kPOY: Let tournament play begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmer Fredette expanded his lead further last week, due mostly to his team&#8217;s ascension in the rankings. The Wooden and Naismith are going to go to Fredette and it&#8217;s looking increasing likely the kPOY will as well. For all the fuss over Fredette&#8217;s dip in efficiency, what&#8217;s been lost is his in increase in usage. He&#8217;s risen to third nationally, and with center Brandon Davies dismissed from the team, taking the national lead may be possible. <\/p>\n<p>(Standings through Sunday\u2019s games. For those new here, <a href=\"http:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/introducing-the-kpoy\/\">this is an explanation<\/a> of the kPOY.)<\/p>\n<p><b>1. Jimmer Fredette, Brigham Young (Rating of .567, last week: 1st)<\/b><br \/>\n<b>2. Nolan Smith, Duke (.516, LW: 2nd)<\/b><br \/>\n<b>3. JaJuan Johnson, Purdue (.512, LW: 4th)<\/b><br \/>\n<b>4. Jared Sullinger, Ohio St. (.493, LW: 3rd)<\/b><br \/>\n<b>5. Jon Leuer, Wisconsin (.477, LW: 5th)<\/b><br \/>\n<b>6. Jordan Hamilton, Texas (.455, LW: 6th)<\/b><br \/>\n<b>7. E&#8217;Twaun Moore, Purdue (.418, LW: 8th)<\/b><br \/>\n<b>8. Jordan Taylor, Wisconsin (.407, LW: 10th)<\/b><br \/>\n<b>9. Terrence Jones, Kentucky (.403, LW: 7th)<\/b><br \/>\n<b>10. Kawhi Leonard, San Diego St. (.388, LW: 9th)<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmer Fredette expanded his lead further last week, due mostly to his team&#8217;s ascension in the rankings. The Wooden and Naismith are going to go to Fredette and it&#8217;s looking increasing likely the kPOY will as well. For all the fuss over Fredette&#8217;s dip in efficiency, what&#8217;s been lost is his in increase in usage. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}