NET Rankings

[ThabeetDown]

If you recall, the NCAA introduced NET as a replacement of sorts for the RPI and will widely be used to determine NCAA bids and seedings. The first one is out.

Here are some notes that pertain to us:

• UConn comes in as #69 (nice). I would imagine you would want to be sub 50 to be considered a bubble team. I would say this is a fair place to be in currently, but do note that KenPom has us at #55.
• Our best non-con opponents come in at:
  • Nova #24
  • Indiana #36
  • Xavier #71
  • Florida #78
  • Buffalo #155
  • Iona #208
• Notable AAC teams:
  • Wichita #14
  • Memphis #16
  • Temple #49
  • Houston #68
  • SMU #88
  • Cincy #110

As of today, AAC looks like a 2-bid league with Temple squarely on the bubble. It looks like we'll need to get probably 3 wins out of Nova/Wichita/Memphis and a split with Temple at the minimum to be a strong bubble team. We do get Wichita at home and a home & home with both Memphis and Temple.

We definitely need some help from Florida in SEC play -- Auburn, Tennessee, LSU are all top-30 NET teams (and Kentucky lurking at 58 should go up). I don't trust Florida as far as I can throw them though...

 

[Huskyfan4evr]

Do the next 3 games being lower tear teams help or hurt the ranking?

 

[Storrs South]

Do the next 3 games being lower tear teams help or hurt the ranking?

Depends on how well UConn plays. If they run them out of the gym, it helps. If they play those games close, it hurts.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

With our next 3 games not much for improvement but shouldn’t really hurt us as long as we beat the spread