Some NET ranking things I found interesting.
Maybe someone else will too. Reference, 358 teams in D1
Most Quad 1 wins Baylor and Purdue are both 8-3 vs Quad 1 teams
Kansas is 7-3, others also have 7 wins
Most Quad 1 games played 13. # 69 Kansas State, 12-11, is 4-9, Marquette is #24, 16-8 is 7-6. Noteworthy, North Carolina 17-7 is #41 but a terrible 1-7 versus Quad 1.
Highest ranked team with a Quad 4 loss, #35 Boise State 18-5 to Bakersfield.
Highest team with no Quad 1 wins, Washington State #43, also Virginia Tech #44
Lowest team with a Quad 1 win. Lipscomb 7-16, 289, beat Dayton 78-59 on the road.
Others with a Quad 1 Southeast Missouri 9-14, 280, beat 64 Missouri State 99-94 in the first game on the road
Bakersfield 4-12, 273 beat Boise St #35 on the road.
Lowest ranked team that’s not below .500 to other Quad 4 teams, Chicago State is 6-6
Lowest ranked team with any Quad 3 wins, Charleston Southern #350, 2-19.
Just plain weird, #62 Dayton is only 7-3 versus Quad 4 teams (early losses to UMass-Lowell #251, Austin Peay, 274 and Lispcomb, 289) but is 2-2 versus Quad 1 teams including wins against Kansas, #7 and Belmont #38.
I don’t know about Dayton specifically, but I would imagine they were out some players early. But despite bad losses, are having a successful season.
These are just for fun. Please don’t take them too seriously:)
But North Carolina does illustrate a point of annoyance for me. Teams like them get so many cracks at good teams. When it comes to being seeded in the tournament, they’ll say oh, they’ve got 3 quad 1 wins (or however many at the time) but they never talk about Quad 1 winning percent, just totals. That way, the big conferences who get 20 cracks at those wins that are so valuable for making the tournament and seeding can look good.
And it might be a win at home on a night another team had someone out sick or hurt but it counts just the same because he came back later and that team kept winning and they therefor remained Quad 1 because it was just one random loss.
But then those Quad 1 losses still work for them in strength of schedule which is part of the Net rankings. I know we all know the Net is stacked in favor of power conference schools, but this just illustrates one way that the mechanism works. It’s a form of double dealing.
(This post was last modified: 02-12-2022 04:08 AM by Todor.)
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