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According to BartTorvik.com, Friday morning’s episode of the Eye On College Basketball podcast described the St. Mary’s as the best team in college basketball over the past month.

. number one. team.

I think most fans don’t know.

In that stretch, Gales are 8-0 and are winning games by an average of 21.4 points. KenPom.com is now predicting them to prevent Gonzaga from winning at least a portion of the West Coast Conference titles for the first time since 2012. This makes him one of the more interesting developments in the sport, especially considering the St. He Marys received zero votes in the preseason. Press the top 25 votes.

However, the body of the work is lacking.

Despite its incredibly powerful computer count (Saint Mary’s is #3 on BartTorvik.com, #6 on NET and Sagarin, #7 on KenPom.com, and #9 on EvanMiya.com), Gaels is only 1-2. In quadrant 1, in quadrant 3 he has a résumé that records two defeats. I recognize that one has little to do with the other. Still, with one win over a top 55 KenPom team and two losses to a sub-100 KenPom team, the school is predicted by KenPom to win the outright West Coast his conference title for the first time in over a decade. is interesting.

Saint Mary’s is No. 21 in the CBS Sports Top 25 And 1 Daily College Basketball Rankings, updated Saturday morning. Gales’ next game is his Saturday night at BYU, where he is listed as a 6.5-point favorite. The first of his two regular season games against Gonzaga is scheduled. Next Inside the McKeon Pavilion on Saturday night.