If you laid out the twenty bucks for KenPom back in November or whenever, you’ve got access to his FanMatch page that ranks every matchup of every day by how compelling it should be. The page today showed that Oklahoma-URI was the second-rated game of the day, with a “Thrill Score” of 70.7.
It paid off. Trae Young come out looking like the week off had done him good, hitting his first four shots and having 10 points and 4 assists in the first ten minutes and change. Then Rhode Island locked in on him a bit and he went silent for 25 minutes.