The NCAA adopted a new rankings system for college basketball, which replaces the RPI as the "primary sorting tool for evaluating teams during the Division I men’s basketball season," to evaluate teams across the country.
The new system NET — NCAA Evaluation Tool — relies on game results, strength of schedule, game location, scoring margin, net offensive and defensive efficiency, and the quality of wins and losses.
"The NET was built to create a ranking system that was as accurate as possible while also evaluating team performance fairly. To ensure fairness, certain types of data were omitted from the model. Of key importance, game date and order were omitted to give equal importance to both early and late-season games. In addition, a cap of 10 points was applied to the winning margin to prevent rankings from encouraging unsportsmanlike play, such as needlessly running up the score in a game where the outcome was certain."
The first set of NET rankings came out today and Notre Dame is No. 19, which is very interesting to say the least.
https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-men/d1/ncaa-mens-basketball-net-rankings
The new system NET — NCAA Evaluation Tool — relies on game results, strength of schedule, game location, scoring margin, net offensive and defensive efficiency, and the quality of wins and losses.
"The NET was built to create a ranking system that was as accurate as possible while also evaluating team performance fairly. To ensure fairness, certain types of data were omitted from the model. Of key importance, game date and order were omitted to give equal importance to both early and late-season games. In addition, a cap of 10 points was applied to the winning margin to prevent rankings from encouraging unsportsmanlike play, such as needlessly running up the score in a game where the outcome was certain."
The first set of NET rankings came out today and Notre Dame is No. 19, which is very interesting to say the least.
https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-men/d1/ncaa-mens-basketball-net-rankings
