We’re now in Year 2 of the NET, which is used by the Selection Committee to help determine the field of 68 in the NCAA Tournament, as well as where each team is seeded.
While a team’s NET ranking doesn’t necessarily decide where they’re seeded, it was obvious last year that it plays a major part in it.
That’s not necessarily a good thing for the 2019-20 Kentucky Wildcats, who’ve had about as weird of a regular season as there’s been in the John Calipari era.
On the one hand, the Cats have several bad marks on their resume, including home defeats to Evansville and Tennessee, as well as losses to Utah in Las Vegas and at South Carolina (who just lost to Vanderbilt).