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- This season, the NCAA decided to switch its system for sorting and evaluating teams heading into the NCAA tournament from RPI to the NET rankings.
- According to the NCAA, the new system uses game results, strength of schedule, game location, scoring margin, net offensive and defensive efficiency, and the quality of wins and losses to rank teams and ultimately determine who will make the tournament field come March.
- The NCAA released its first set of NET rankings Monday afternoon.
- College basketball fans are roasting the new system after it ranked the Ohio State Buckeyes No. 1 and has the Kentucky Wildcats on the tournament bubble.
The NCAA introduced a new system to replace the RPI in ranking each of college basketball’s 353 Division I programs.
So far, it’s not going too well.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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