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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 3871208, member: 1329"] The NET has been tuned to reflect the appropriate results under a normal season. It's not built to handle the exceptions that this season brings. Teams with 0 non-conference games, teams with small numbers of games played, teams going 6-0 on the road with all victories by at least 7 points, teams with 3 40+ point wins among their 12 games played, teams with an average scoring margin of 18 points and who of their 11 wins won by 9+ points in 10 of them (and the one loss was by 2 points). That's Colgate ^. Aberrations will always be more prominent with less numbers of games. They get smoothed out by more games and more non-conference games, neither of which happened here. But results from other conferences that are less isolated and more prolific will be more normal(ish). The B1G didn't manipulate the NET. They just had good teams, played well in non-conf overall, and because of the heavier schedule of conf vs. nonconf gave their medium teams more opportunities to win agaisnt good teams than other conferences. Systems factor this in, but people who only look at quadrant wins and don't factor in win% in those quadrants or scoring margin will be misled. [/QUOTE]