{"id":977,"date":"2004-01-15T09:56:24","date_gmt":"2004-01-15T15:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/freaks-and-frauds\/"},"modified":"2004-01-15T09:56:24","modified_gmt":"2004-01-15T15:56:24","slug":"freaks-and-frauds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/freaks-and-frauds\/","title":{"rendered":"Freaks and Frauds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned about two highly rated teams last night&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati, in their first real test of the year and I think their first national TV appearance, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enquirer.com\/bearcats\/2004\/01\/15\/UC-0115.html\">shined on the road against Marquette<\/a>. As usual the Bearcats are filled with a bunch of rail-thin athletes (except for Maxiell) that have 40&#8243; verticals and 6 foot long arms. In other words, freaks of nature. Next Wednesday they travel to Louisville for some must-see TV.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma failed another road test miserably. Their only quality wins so far are close ones against Purdue and Michigan St. Those wins don&#8217;t look nearly as impressive as they did at the time. Even against their fairly weak early schedule they were barely able to shoot 40% from the field, ranking a paltry 240th in D1 (Ok. St. was #1 going into last night). After getting pummeled by UConn and Oklahoma St., the Sooners game on Saturday hosting Missouri is huge for restoring their credibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned about two highly rated teams last night&#8230; Cincinnati, in their first real test of the year and I think their first national TV appearance, shined on the road against Marquette. As usual the Bearcats are filled with a bunch of rail-thin athletes (except for Maxiell) that have 40&#8243; verticals and 6 foot long [&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\/977"}],"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=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}