The NCAA issued a statement this morning that they will not longer use RPI as “the primary sorting tool for evaluating teams during the Division I men’s basketball season”. Instead, a new ratings system, the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) will be used to evaluate teams. According to the NCAA:
The NCAA Evaluation Tool, which will be known as the NET, relies on game results, strength of schedule, game location, scoring margin, net offensive and defensive efficiency, and the quality of wins and losses. To make sense of team performance data, late-season games (including from the NCAA tournament) were used as test sets to develop a ranking model leveraging machine learning techniques.