Designation as “mid-major” in college basketball is more open to interpretation than the strict delineation of college football’s Power Five and Group of Five.
For the past few years, I've been breaking D1 conferences into groups based on a rolling weighted average of their KenPom rating. This was originally borne of my trying to find some answer to the question of whether the American was a high major or mid-major and it really just muddied it even more because the American at the time slotted pretty much exactly between the two groups.
Because I was trying to answer this specific question, I only factored in data from 2013 realignment onward, but now everything's getting thrown out of wack again and I'm probably gonna have to start over.
Anyway, this great piece reminded me that I haven't updated this dataset for 2023 yet. I'm gonna have to write that up soon!
For the past few years, I've been breaking D1 conferences into groups based on a rolling weighted average of their KenPom rating. This was originally borne of my trying to find some answer to the question of whether the American was a high major or mid-major and it really just muddied it even more because the American at the time slotted pretty much exactly between the two groups.
Because I was trying to answer this specific question, I only factored in data from 2013 realignment onward, but now everything's getting thrown out of wack again and I'm probably gonna have to start over.
Anyway, this great piece reminded me that I haven't updated this dataset for 2023 yet. I'm gonna have to write that up soon!