{"id":336848,"date":"2025-10-12T13:01:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/336848\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T13:01:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:01:22","slug":"iu-basketball-ranked-no-40-in-preseason-kenpom-ratings-11th-in-the-big-ten-inside-the-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/336848\/","title":{"rendered":"IU basketball ranked No. 40 in preseason KenPom ratings, 11th in the Big Ten &#8211; Inside the Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"featured\">\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/202050811_MBB_INGAME_0099-856x571.jpg\" alt=\"Lamar Wilkerson attempts a jump shot.\"\/>\n                <\/p>\n<p>The preseason\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">KenPom.com<\/a> ratings are out for the 2025-26 season and Indiana is No. 40 nationally.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 40 ranking is the 11th-highest for a Big Ten team.<\/p>\n<p>The Hoosiers started last season at No. 39 and finished at No. 45, missing the NCAA tournament for the second-straight season under Mike Woodson. Woodson left the program at the conclusion of the 2024-25 season and Darian DeVries was hired in March.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the Big Ten is ranked as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Purdue (No. 3)<br \/>Illinois (No. 6)<br \/>UCLA (No. 10)<br \/>Michigan (No. 11)<br \/>Wisconsin (No. 20)<br \/>USC (No. 22)<br \/>Michigan State (No. 25)<br \/>Ohio State (No. 27)<br \/>Maryland (No. 34)<br \/>Oregon (No. 37)<br \/>Washington (No. 45)<br \/>Iowa (No. 46)<br \/>Nebraska (No. 51)<br \/>Northwestern (No. 57)<br \/>Minnesota (No. 73)<br \/>Rutgers (No. 85)<br \/>Penn State (No. 95)<\/p>\n<p>The Hoosiers rank No. 35 nationally in offensive efficiency and No. 41 in defensive efficiency in the preseason, according to Pomeroy.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana is projected to finish the regular season 18-13 overall and 10-10 in the Big Ten.<\/p>\n<p>The top-ranked non-conference opponents on Indiana\u2019s schedule are Kentucky (No. 4), Louisville (No. 14), Marquette (No. 47), Kansas State (No. 61) and Incarnate Word (No. 174).<\/p>\n<p>(Photo credit: IU Athletics)<\/p>\n<p class=\"filed\">See More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidethehall.com\/category\/media\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Media<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidethehall.com\/tag\/ken-pomeroy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Pomeroy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The preseason\u00a0KenPom.com ratings are out for the 2025-26 season and Indiana is No. 40 nationally. The No. 40&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,53786],"class_list":{"0":"post-336848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ken-pomeroy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115361328936294092","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}