NCAA tweaks selection criteria for tournament

[tcf15]

NCAA selection committee adjusts team sheets, emphasizing road/neutral games more than ever
Monmouth’s case for an at-large berth in the 2016 NCAA tournament just got even stronger, nearly two years after the decision was made to keep the Hawks out of the field.

Why? A new tweak in the way the NCAA tournament selection committee views road and neutral wins would have put Monmouth in a more favorable light.

The selection committee will no longer use top 50, top 100, 200 and 201 and above as dividing categories. Instead, the new terminology will be quadrants 1, 2, 3 and 4. The decision is to get away from treating every team the same if the game was on the road, neutral or at home based on their power rating. Now the road/neutral games will matter more.

 

[WrenchFan69]

Does it allow them to realize that playing a neutral site game in Portland against Oregon not really neutral?

 

[willie99]

Does it allow them to realize that playing a neutral site game in Portland against Oregon not really neutral?

or playing in state teams like Davidson and Greensboro and Ashville and Charlotte and Wilmington in large arenas is not really a road game just because you call them the home team

 

[auror]

This is basically copying KenPom's 'A' and 'B' games methodology. A very good change, one that Pomeroy himself was pushing for.

Does it allow them to realize that playing a neutral site game in Portland against Oregon not really neutral?

KenPom and BPI take that into account and the members look at those numbers, so... maybe.