The men’s basketball NCAA tournament selection committee is no longer using the RPI to evaluate teams, it’s using a brand new metric called the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET for short). The first set of NET rankings were released last Monday, and the updated standings went up today. NC State is in good shape, checking in at No. 15.
The results this new metric spit out last week were widely ridiculed, mostly, I suspect, out of a total lack of understanding of what’s going on. Of course NET is going to look wacky at this point in the season—there haven’t been enough games played by anybody to establish a refined statistical profile.