{"id":518,"date":"2011-01-24T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/the-good-and-the-winless\/"},"modified":"2011-01-24T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T12:00:20","slug":"the-good-and-the-winless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/the-good-and-the-winless\/","title":{"rendered":"The good and the winless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few conference games have been played and the elusive dream of going unbeaten in conference play has ended for most. By my count there are 23 teams undefeated in conference (although this includes Princeton and Penn who have not yet played a conference game). Last season, only Butler could achieve this task. With Belmont\u2019s win at East Tennessee State yesterday, we have our first team that has cracked the 50% mark to accomplish it. Here are the ten most likely teams to do it.<\/p>\n<pre>Belmont     53.9%\nOakland     32.5%\nUtah St.    28.5%\nSt. Mary's  24.0%\nBucknell    18.7%\nC. Carolina 16.7%\nTexas       11.9%\nBYU          8.6%\nTx Southern  8.5%\nDuquesne     6.8%\nOhio St.     5.8%\n<\/pre>\n<p>There are 22 teams still winless in conference play. This is a feat that only Fordham achieved in 2010. Centenary is the only odds-on favorite and they\u2019re banking on a home date with Western Illinois in late February to avoid an 0-30 season. Let\u2019s save the snarky comments though, since they&#8217;re leaving D-I next season. And as bad as Auburn, Wake Forest, and DePaul have been, odds are that they beat somebody. Here are the ten most likely teams to go winless.<\/p>\n<pre>Centenary   64.4%\nWake Forest 31.4%\nSan Diego   25.9%\nAuburn      23.3%\nDePaul      22.3%\nFordham     18.0%\nGa. Sthrn   16.0%\nTowson      11.9%\nLa. Tech     9.4%\nCentral Ark. 8.0%\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few conference games have been played and the elusive dream of going unbeaten in conference play has ended for most. By my count there are 23 teams undefeated in conference (although this includes Princeton and Penn who have not yet played a conference game). Last season, only Butler could achieve this task. With Belmont\u2019s [&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\/518"}],"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=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}