It’s still fairly early in the 2018-19 college basketball season, yet we’ve already established that the NCAA’s new “NET” rating is a bad metric, and it could very likely stay that way over the course of the season.
Depending on how much of a role it plays in the selection process, that could be a major issue for the entire sport. But what we really care about is how it affects the Syracuse Orange men’s basketball team come NCAA Tournament selection time.
Syracuse.com’s Donna Ditota broke down NET a bit on Thursday, looking at what impact it has on the “Quadrant” nonsense that the NCAA instituted last year.