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Message: [QUOTE="Orange, post: 5225274, member: 13288"] The committee usually claims that the NET is actually meant to judge a team's opponents rather than the team itself. Basically, your opponent's NET ranking is supposed to matter, but your own NET ranking really isn't supposed to matter. Other than WVU and UNC, they really didn't seed that much based on a team's own NET ranking. For example, Gonzaga got an #8 seed despite being #8 in NET. Memphis got a #5 seed despite being #50 in NET. Gonzaga would be a big favorite over Memphis on a neutral court, but Memphis still got a much better seed due to having much more impressive wins than Gonzaga did. As somewhat less extreme examples, VCU got an 11 seed despite being #31 in NET, and UCSD got a 12 seed despite #35 in NET. Really, I don't think that UNC's NET ranking had that much to do with why UNC made the tournament, even though that's the excuse they're using. Bubba Cunningham was going to put his team in the tournament unless they had an overall losing record. Even if UNC was 18-17 and ranked #102 in NET, Cunningham probably would have put UNC in the tournament. Especially since this was already going to be his last year as committee chair, so he didn't even have to worry about being removed as committee chair for picking UNC. [/QUOTE]