For years, the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee has tried to justify their seeding of teams through a myriad of numbers, team records, RPI (Rating Percentage Index) and the all important eye test.
Other factors also include a team’s ranking in five other metrics: the ESPN strength of record and BPI rankings, the KPI, KenPom and Sagarin rankings.
Now the selection committee has another avenue to determine the best teams in the nation, something known as the quadrant system.
Before the committee could look at things such as wins against the RPI's Top 50 to explain tournament seeding or if a team got left out of the 68 team field entirely.