1/2/2024 0 Comments Ncaa brackets leftDuke had just six wins against Q1 and ended up with five losses outside the top half of Q1. After beating A&M on Sunday, Tennessee finished the season with 11 Quadrant 1 wins -second only to Kansas' 12 -and did not suffer a single loss outside of the top half of Quadrant 1. But Tennessee finished eighth or better in all six of those metrics while Duke finished in 10th or worse in all six metrics.ĭon't like computers telling you what to do? Alright, fine. What do they stand for and how are they calculated? Not important and who the heck knows. There are six metrics on the selection committee's team sheets: NET, KPI, SOR, BPI, KP and SAG. 3 seed wouldn't have made sense.īut Tennessee ahead of Duke should have happened. 12, and the Wildcats were very much in the mix for a No. Heading into the week, I had Kentucky at No. 2 seed even though the Volunteers went 2-1 against the Wildcats and bounced them in the SEC semifinals. Some will complain about Tennessee getting a No. So, not only did Texas A&M get screwed, but the team it lost to in the SEC championship got a raw deal, too. Tennessee's Zakai Zeigler Wade Payne/Associated Press Texas A&M had an incredible run, but it didn't matter because evidently going 17-1 against Quadrants 3 and 4 made Notre Dame the more deserving team. And they even lost the game at Boston College! And it's total nonsense, because they had the most favorable, unbalanced schedule of all-time, getting to play their double dips against Pittsburgh, Georgia Tech, Boston College, Louisville, NC State and Clemson. Kentucky), two Q1 wins and a miserable 4-9 record against the top two quadrants that I'm going to guess is the worst we've ever seen from an at-large team.īut do you want to know why the Fighting Irish got in? Because they finished second in the ACC with a 15-5 record. When all was said and done, Texas A&M had three wins against the top half of Quadrant 1, four total wins against Quadrant 1 and a 9-10 record against the top two quadrants. All you really need to know about those numbers is you're most likely getting in if you finish top-45 in all three.Īnd yet, Texas A&M got left out while Notre Dame -which finished at 53 in the NET, 51.0 in resume and 52.7 in quality -was inexplicably deemed either the third-to-last or fourth-to-last team in. 42 in the NET with average resume and quality rankings of 41.5 and 44.3, respectively. 7 seed, it was the most impressive Championship Week run by any team on the bubble, by far.Īs far as the metrics are concerned, that brought the Aggies to a final resting place at No. Save for Virginia Tech winning the entire ACC tournament as the No. The Aggies went through Florida (Q2 win), Auburn (Q1 win) and Arkansas (Q1 win) before losing to Tennessee (Q1 loss). With so much to consider and so little to separate the teams, you could swap out one committee member and just about come up with an entirely new Last Four In.īut what the heck was the point of the SEC tournament if Texas A&M didn't get into the dance for reaching the finals? It's hard to feel too badly for any team that gets left out, because it either had too many losses, too many bad losses, a pathetic nonconference schedule, not enough quality wins, or a combination of all those things. Texas A&M's Buzz Williams Chris O'Meara/Associated PressĪs always, it must be pointed out that every team on the bubble had some fatal flaws. It's almost like the selection committee wants me to keep writing this article. Has any single-digit seed ever been placed at as much of a geographical disadvantage as the draw that Michigan State was given?Īnd did any committee members watch the Mountain West this year to realize Boise State won two titles? Iowa State won nine Quadrant 1 games but didn't even get a No. 1 seed this year and winning it all last year, but here's the most brutal draw ever given to a team on the top line. With the way Texas A&M and Tennessee were treated by the selection committee, why even hold the SEC tournament at all?Ĭongratulations to Baylor on earning a No. And every single year, we get fired up over some of the most egregious screwjobs. The field for the 2022 men's NCAA tournament is set, and no amount of whining will change that.Įvery single year the tournament selection committee makes in/out or seeding decisions that make no sense, or it gives a handful of teams an absolutely brutal draw. Tennessee head coach Rick Barnes has a right to be hopping mad at the selection committee.
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