The NCAA announced on Wednesday that it is making a change in the way it evaluates college basketball teams during the NCAA Tournament selection process.

Gone is the rating percentage index (RPI), first used in 1981 and had since become a bugaboo for the Wichita State men’s basketball team during its rise in the Missouri Valley Conference under Gregg Marshall, and replacing it will be a new metric called the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET).

Here’s what you need to know about the new metric and how it will affect the Shockers.

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