The NCAA announced Wednesday a big change in the way it will choose the field of 68 for the men's basketball tournament.
It has scrapped the old RPI completely and replaced it with what it has named the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET), which is a ranking system that relies on game results, strength of schedule (provided by ESPN), game location, scoring margin (this is big as some teams will go back to blowing out other teams), net offensive and defensive efficiency, and the quality of wins and losses.
There are four quadrants for quality of wins:
Quadrant 1: Home against teams ranked 1-30, neutral court ranked 1-50 and away games 1-75.