If you’ve paid attention to the NCAA Tournament at all you know about the NET rankings. If not, maybe you’ve seen them discussed on this site or elsewhere on the college basketball internet. If this still isn’t ringing a bell I’ll give a brief primer below before we go into what the NCAA did today to help our beloved Boilermakers.
The NET largely replaced the prior measurement of RPI that the NCAA Selection Committee uses to determine seeding and who is in and who is out come Selection Sunday. It takes into account a number of factors (It takes into account game results, strength of schedule, game location, scoring margin, net offensive and defensive efficiency, and the quality of wins and losses.