Kentucky is the best team in college basketball, according to some of the best analytics the sport has to offer — a system we use most years to separate the good from the great and bad from the horrible.
KenPom is a massive indicator for not only long-term season success, but NCAA Tournament results, too. The general rule of thumb is that teams ranked inside the top 20 for both offense and defense nationally almost always make the deepest runs in March Madness with all but three times going back to 1998 the national champion finishing as a top-three finisher by the service.