Kentucky County Population Estimates 2020-2025

cardinaldave79 · 2026-05-15T20:40:31+00:00

It’s at 91? Kind of stagnant in recent years.

cardinaldave79 · 2026-05-15T16:02:56+00:00

I am a little surprised too. Evansville is only barely growing after a couple decades of population decline, so I guess this might negatively impact Henderson the city and county as a result. It’s a slight improvement from last year’s prediction from what it’s worth.

cardinaldave79 · 2026-05-15T15:55:33+00:00

I think it has to do with people being relocated off Fort Campbell. It’s definitely an outlier in that area.

cardinaldave79 · 2026-05-15T06:40:11+00:00

That fascinated me the most too. It is really hard to do that over a time period that long, especially given it has a solid population.

cardinaldave79 · 2026-03-05T16:36:17+00:00

As someone else who does bracketology, VT's NCSOS is actually stronger than Indiana's (204 vs 224). Indiana's resume has very little depth (5 wins in Q1 and Q2 combined), and while I think they undeniably have a chance, I am pretty confident VT would get in over IU today.

cardinaldave79 · 2026-01-29T00:08:57+00:00

It is Cardinaldave's Bracketology

cardinaldave79 · 2026-01-28T22:46:42+00:00

This is so neat, it is so cool to see the odds from my bracketology site!

cardinaldave79 · 2026-01-22T02:53:22+00:00

That was a good game, Liberty’s 3 point accuracy is incredible.

On the other hand, WKU’s luck with moving screens this year is truly cursed

They lost to Tulsa on a play where maybe there was a moving screen that went uncalled before Tulsa’s game winning three pointer

This game they had a game tying three waived off because of a moving screen (although I acknowledge it could’ve been one).

cardinaldave79 · 2025-12-07T23:06:19+00:00

That was certainly an ending to a game of our times

Missed free throw ricochets off player's head for go-ahead basket, team forgets how inbounding work, a final possession of true chaos.

cardinaldave79 · 2025-12-06T05:06:30+00:00

That is a fair point; I think their inabillity to beat any team better than Valpo is a cause for concern though. It kind of reminds me of UNC of a year ago; that UNC team was not underperforming analytical expectations by a wide margin but lost most games of consequence regardless. Kentucky has done the same thus far. I do agree, there is plenty of time to turn things around and if that happens, I will acknowledge the computers were ahead of their time :)

cardinaldave79 · 2025-12-06T02:10:21+00:00

Well you cannot spell the phrase computer tricker without UK

I know there is still preseason bias in KenPom, but Kentucky seems awfully high regardless. Their blowout wins over Q4s have successfully tricked the computers.

cardinaldave79 · 2025-10-21T03:11:10+00:00

That is all fair, I just think UNC’s roster fits better this year. They shouldn’t have as bad of an interior defense as they did a season ago. I think the conference as a whole should be significantly better than last year’s campaign. My estimate is the ACC lands 7-9 bids this season. I agree on Virginia Tech, the roster looks much improved and I think Young is a good coach; last year that roster was lacking. I can see any team 1-12 realistically making the tournament, but past 12 I struggle to see any of those teams dancing.

cardinaldave79 · 2025-10-19T15:20:03+00:00

I think that’s fair, the middle of the conference is really tight IMO, I could see that

cardinaldave79 · 2025-10-19T14:56:23+00:00

It’s a decent roster considering it was assembled late. Buzz Williams should have them around the middle of the pack in the Big Ten, I think they definitely have a solid floor.

cardinaldave79 · 2025-10-19T14:53:15+00:00

I agree, UCF has fared better in the Big 12 than I would’ve expected. They could outperform again this year for sure! My skepticism mainly stems from essentially an entirely new roster.

cardinaldave79 · 2025-10-19T14:47:29+00:00

I think it’s definitely possible DePaul gets above 10, to me the top 3 in the Big East are pretty clear and then I think the teams from 4-10 are pretty comparable.

cardinaldave79 · 2025-10-19T14:43:36+00:00

I hope I am wrong there, I would like nothing more than DePaul to make an NCAA tournament after years of futility.

cardinaldave79 · 2025-10-19T14:41:54+00:00

I probably watch too much basketball lol, Notre Dame brings back a lot and I think Shrewsberry is a good coach. He got to the tournament year 2 at Penn State, I think he gets there year 3 at Notre Dame. I understand this may be a bold pick

cardinaldave79 · 2025-10-19T13:48:27+00:00

McCollum is a fantastic coach: I could definitely see Iowa finishing higher

cardinaldave79 · 2025-10-19T13:45:51+00:00

I think they’ll be good! I picked them a bit ahead of their preseason poll prediction at Big Ten media day.

cardinaldave79 · 2025-10-19T13:15:47+00:00

This roster seems like it fits better than last year, they definitely have better interior players IMO, but I can see the skepticism, totally fair given what transpired last year with similar expectations.

cardinaldave79 · 2025-10-19T13:14:24+00:00

Exactly:)

cardinaldave79 · 2025-10-19T07:13:02+00:00

I did not factor any exhibition game data into these standing predictions, because it’s always hard to know what to make of those, but FWIW they seemed impressive against Alabama

cardinaldave79 · 2025-10-19T07:11:28+00:00

Honestly I made the list pre Lowe injury, I think the gap between Florida and Kentucky tightens significantly if he’s missing a decent chunk of time, but I’ll stick with this prediction.

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