I want to be mad at the NCAA Selection Committee this morning, but I can’t.
Sure, it’s annoying that the NCAA a few years ago switched from RPI — which has Vanderbilt 40th — to NET, which has Vanderbilt 81st. It’s obnoxious that winning five Quad 1 games didn’t mean anything. It sucks that Mississippi State rolled a crap nonconference schedule, finished three games behind Vanderbilt in the SEC standings, and is in the NCAA Tournament.
Fine. Really, though, we all know why Vanderbilt isn’t in the tournament. Over the course of the regular season, they lost two Quad 3 games (to Southern Miss at home and at LSU) and a Quad 4 game (to Grambling at home.