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David Rahm,
I have acknowledged that NET is out of whack this year for the reasons I’ve stated multiple times. I’m not going to throw a system out based on such an unusual year. Nor am I anointing it flawless or even the best available method.
As far as the other teams you mentioned, as with Colgate, few of them are considered at large teams at this time.
Per Bracketmatrix, the following is the list of teams you mentioned followed by how many mock brackets currently include them as an at large out of 106 brackets.
Georgia Tech - 1
Notre Dame - 1
Kentucky - 2
Duke - 2
Penn State - 4
WSU - 5
Furman - 18
Maryland - 31
Stanford - 59
Indiana - 98
Knowing there are still three weeks until selection Sunday so things can change, let’s assume a team in fewer than 75% of mock brackets would not make the tournament today. That leaves one team on your list, Indiana, who makes the tourney.
Indiana’s resume:
Q1: 2-8
Q2: 5-0
Q3: 2-1
Q4: 2-0
SOS: 42 overall, 127 non con
WSU’s resume:
Q1: 1-3
Q2: 2-2
Q3: 5-0
Q4: 2-0
SOS:
As we know because we follow them so closely, WSU still has opportunities to build an NCAA worthy resume. Do they have one already? I think the case can be made they do but I’m not willing to compare it to every other bubble team.
Is Indiana worthy? 2 Q1 wins is underwhelming considering the number of Q1 opportunities they’ve had but the rest looks solid.
FWIW, wins above bubble, which is the sexy new metric that many want to replace NET, considers the following teams from your list as tournament teams. Seed is in brackets.
Colgate (14), Indiana (10), Wichita State (12), Stanford (13), Maryland (14), Penn St (play in).
I don’t believe the above takes auto-bids into consideration so some of the higher seeds likely would be pushed out in reality.
I have acknowledged that NET is out of whack this year for the reasons I’ve stated multiple times. I’m not going to throw a system out based on such an unusual year. Nor am I anointing it flawless or even the best available method.
As far as the other teams you mentioned, as with Colgate, few of them are considered at large teams at this time.
Per Bracketmatrix, the following is the list of teams you mentioned followed by how many mock brackets currently include them as an at large out of 106 brackets.
Georgia Tech - 1
Notre Dame - 1
Kentucky - 2
Duke - 2
Penn State - 4
WSU - 5
Furman - 18
Maryland - 31
Stanford - 59
Indiana - 98
Knowing there are still three weeks until selection Sunday so things can change, let’s assume a team in fewer than 75% of mock brackets would not make the tournament today. That leaves one team on your list, Indiana, who makes the tourney.
Indiana’s resume:
Q1: 2-8
Q2: 5-0
Q3: 2-1
Q4: 2-0
SOS: 42 overall, 127 non con
WSU’s resume:
Q1: 1-3
Q2: 2-2
Q3: 5-0
Q4: 2-0
SOS:
As we know because we follow them so closely, WSU still has opportunities to build an NCAA worthy resume. Do they have one already? I think the case can be made they do but I’m not willing to compare it to every other bubble team.
Is Indiana worthy? 2 Q1 wins is underwhelming considering the number of Q1 opportunities they’ve had but the rest looks solid.
FWIW, wins above bubble, which is the sexy new metric that many want to replace NET, considers the following teams from your list as tournament teams. Seed is in brackets.
Colgate (14), Indiana (10), Wichita State (12), Stanford (13), Maryland (14), Penn St (play in).
I don’t believe the above takes auto-bids into consideration so some of the higher seeds likely would be pushed out in reality.
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