It’s not happening overnight and will not affect the selection committee process in 2017, but the NCAA is getting closer to involving advanced statistical metrics in its tournament selection process. Ken Pomeroy and Jeff Sagarin, among others, will meet with NCAA officials next week to begin outlining a plan for the inclusion of more analytics into the committee’s approach.
There’s no telling where exactly this will lead, but the mention of a possible composite metric in this initial release certainly implies a lot.
“They’ve got some pretty strong thoughts on what a composite metric could look like and maybe should look like,” [NCAA SVP of men’s basketball Dan Gavitt] said of the working group.