When the NCAA’s first NET rankings of the season earlier debuted with Xavier at 71st earlier this week, Travis Steele was in disbelief.
“There’s no rhyme or reason,” the second-year Musketeer coach said. “I did a deep dive into it until about 4 a.m. and so you start looking into and it’s like you’ve got a team ranked 20 or 21 or whatever it is in the country. They don’t have one tier one win.”
“It makes no sense and they won’t disclose anything. There needs to be transparency. I think that’s very clear.”
Shortly after the release, Xavier Associate Athletic Director for Basketball and scheduling-czar Mario Mercurio fired off several since-deleted tweets ridiculing the system and the NCAA’s botched handling of it (the spreadsheet released had a ton of errors).