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Based on the data, NC State basketball is one of the most unlucky programs in the country

Related Topics: Ken Pomeroy, Basketball

Ken Pomeroy is one of the most respected data analysts in the college basketball space.

He runs KenPom.com, which was one of the first deep-data type sites out there for public consumption (subscription.) The platform looks at things like ‘4-factors’ and adjusted offensive and defensive efficiency.

The one other cool metric he’s added is ‘Luck Rating,” which measures how much better or worse a college basketball team’s record is than what their efficiency numbers say they “deserve” to be.

So here is how it works…

KenPom looks at every game the team has played.