When it comes to NCAA Tournament selections and seeing the most important metric is the NET ranking, the NCAA’s exclusive all encompassing metric that they use for sorting teams into the quadrants you hear referenced as it relates to quadrant-1, quadrant-2, quadrant-3, and quadrant-4 wins and losses.
To put it simply, how a team stands in the NET rankings is of extreme importance as it relates to their postseason standing.
In addition to wins and losses the NET adjusts for what team is at home, on the road, or if the game was at a neutral site and it factors in offensive and defensive efficiency numbers.