** NET & KenPom **

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Oak Forest Ag
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Just an FYI:

  • A&M is 43 NET and 38 KP.
  • Georgia is 39 NET and 41 KP.
  • tu is 36 NET and 28 KP.
  • Auburn is 34 NET and 34 KP.
We beat all three on the road.

Just keep winning, and BTHOOU!
linkdude
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this is funny to consider wrt teams you play twice
Faustus
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Oak Forest Ag said:

Just an FYI:

  • A&M is 43 NET and 38 KP.
  • Georgia is 39 NET and 41 KP.
  • tu is 36 NET and 28 KP.
  • Auburn is 34 NET and 34 KP.
We beat all three on the road.

Just keep winning, and BTHOOU!



Need all 3 to stay under 40 NET for Quad 1A wins. NC State is NET 26 and would be a Quad 1A for Texas if they get back to under NET 25.

Fun rooting stuff.
bobinator
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People really need to be paying more attention to the NET WAB rankings. I think it's the single most important metric for how the committee is going to do things.
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bobinator said:

People really need to be paying more attention to the NET WAB rankings. I think it's the single most important metric for how the committee is going to do things.

Not a big fan of this one this season given some of Texas' WTF losses to MSU, ASU, etc.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/wins-above-bubble-ncaa-tournament-selection-committee-seeding/
Quote:

. . .
While it's improbable that any selection or seeding decision made by the committee would be based on a single metric, WAB can be a guiding light in resume evaluations. It certainly was in 2025.

"Well the hardest decisions the committee has to make, I think, are probably those ones at the bottom of the at-large selection, right?" Gavitt said. "There's a reason why everyone tracks this so closely, the bubble teams. Who is going to get in and who's not going to get in? Comparing those resumes is often a real challenge when you have schools from different leagues, or very different schedule strengths.

"You really want to try to right-size that as much as possible and be comparing apples to apples versus apples to oranges. And the WAB, I think, has helped the committee do just that."
. . .

WAB thus far:
https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-men/d1/wab-ranking

A&M (44) is ranked 11th in this metric in the SEC, but just barely behind Mizzou (38), Georgia (39), Texas (40), and Auburn (42).

Going by WAB Alabama (11) is the best team in the SEC and would be a 3 seed today, which is considerably lower than what most have them. Bracketmatrix has them as a 5 seed and Lunardi a 4 seed.

It's probably more useful as to the final bubble teams, as the quote above indicates.
bobinator
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Here's last year's field against their WAB ranks on Selection Sunday. (Edit: had labels flipped in the last one)

Faustus
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So Xavier was egregious in its inclusion and West Virginia was screwed last year going by WAB, which is precisely where you'd think it most useful comparing bubble teams.

Still a good metric to be on the right side of.
bobinator
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It's not quite as bad as it seems for Xavier because there's a couple more teams in between there that actually qualified as AQs so I didn't list them because it would make things more confusing for the actual bubble teams.

UC San Diego and Colorado State had WAB ranks of 45 and 47 but were automatically in the field.

But yes West Virginia got hosed pretty bad last year.
greg.w.h
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https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/wins-above-bubble-ncaa-tournament-selection-committee-seeding/

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