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Message: [QUOTE="HooperScooper, post: 4221219, member: 10"] For the few people who still long for the AAC, you should read this about Houston. How would you like to be 24-4 with no Quad 1 wins because there aren't any available in your conference? I think the game at SMU would have been a Quad 1 win but they lost. Btw, Palm has UConn as a 4 seed right now. Just keep winning! [HEADING=1][I]How to judge [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/HOU/houston-cougars/']Houston[/URL][/I][/HEADING] [I]Houston, a No. 6 seed, also had a big win on Sunday, beating [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/SMU/smu-mustangs/']SMU[/URL] 75-61. The Cougars are an interesting case for the [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/ncaa-tournament']NCAA Tournament[/URL] selection committee. As of this morning, they are 24-4 overall, but do not have any Quad 1 wins. Houston is 0-3 against that group, with losses to [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/WISC/wisconsin-badgers/']Wisconsin[/URL], [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/BAMA/alabama-crimson-tide/']Alabama[/URL] and SMU, all away from home. Their only other loss came at home to [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/MEMP/memphis-tigers/']Memphis[/URL]. Since I started collecting data in 1994, the highest seed a team without a Quad 1 win has received is a No. 8 seed. That last occurred for Wisconsin-Green Bay in 1996. The highest seed for a team winless against Q1 in more recent times is a 10 for [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/UGA/georgia-bulldogs/']Georgia[/URL] in 2015. I think we would all be shocked if Houston were seeded anywhere near that low, even if the Cougars do not end up with any Quad 1 wins, but also do not be surprised if they are not seeded as high as their metrics might suggest. You might notice that I am using the term "quadrant" to describe seasons long before the term was introduced. In fact, a team's opponents have always been listed in four groups on the team sheets, or at least for as long as I have been tracking them. There was no need for a term like "quadrant" initially because the division of the groups was simple to explain. Quad 1 was games against teams ranked 1-50 in the RPI, Quad 2 was teams 51-100, Quad 3 was teams 101-200 and Quad 4 was teams ranked 201 and higher. The term "quadrant" was introduced in 2018, when the NCAA decided to add a home and road element to deciding which games went into each quadrant. There were three RPI groupings in each quadrant, depending on whether a game was home, road or neutral. In 2019, the NET replaced the RPI as the metric of choice for the NCAA and NET ranking groups have defined the quadrants since.[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/bracketology-michigan-falls-off-bracket-slips-to-first-team-out-of-field-of-68-after-loss-to-illinois/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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