Kentucky vs. Louisville statistical breakdown

Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty ImagesNow that we are eleven games into the season and prepping for the annual holiday face-off with the Louisville Cardinals, I’m wondering about the key measures we should be looking at to assess our chances of pulling out a win.

Maybe it’s not a bad time to take a deeper look – with the help of some statistical learning tools –to see if we can find any statistical trends that have been associated with Kentucky wins and losses this season.

To that end, let’s examine several standard and advanced team statistics for each game and compare to the Cats’ margin of victory (MOV). The variables we consider are specified in Table 1.

Table 1. Per game statistics used as…