With recent news on the non-conference schedule coming out for Georgetown and the Big East schedule released on Thursday, there has been plenty of good discussions on what it might take for Patrick Ewing and the Georgetown Hoyas to make the 2019 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Are the non-conference teams a step up from last season? Is the Big East “down” this year? Is 20 wins the magic number?
Of course, there is a new metric in use this year, the “NET,” which is the NCAA’s proprietary tool that apparently hybridizes results-based values (e.