DI Men’s Basketball Committee altering definition of a quality win, placing greater emphasis on winning road games: https://t.co/2klmsBO80c pic.twitter.com/rpABuS5YxZ
For the 2017-2018 season, the committee will put emphasis on where games were played. The new team sheets will still have four columns, still using RPI rankings:
1. Home Games against teams ranked 1-30, neutral-site games against top 50 teams, and road games against top 75 teams.
2. Home games versus teams ranked 31-75, neutral-site games facing teams ranked 51-100 and road games against teams ranked 76-135.
3. Home games against teams ranked 76-160, neutral court games played with teams ranked 101-200 and away games facing opponents ranked 136-240
4. All other games: Home games against opponents ranked lower than 161, neutral-site contests with opponents ranking lower than 201, and road games versus teams ranked lower than 241.
While that all seems pretty complicated, it just organizes wins and losses by home, away and neutral sites while including team rankings as well.
So all of the games in column one are more important than those in column two and so on.
What does that accomplish? The current chair of the committee Mike Hollis put it perfectly:
“Beating elite competition, regardless of the game location, will still be rewarded, but the committee wanted the team sheets to reflect that a road game against a team ranked 60th is mathematically more difficult and of higher quality than a home game versus a team ranked 35th.”
This change will have an impact year to year based on where teams play. The neutral site variation will also impact rankings based on preseason tournaments.
The NCAA is also conducting research this year to consider moving from RPI to a composite ranking that combines the many metrics that exist. So a lot more thought is going in to where teams fall in March.
Sounds like getting those quality road wins will be even more important on Selection Sunday. Also beating good/decent but not great teams on the road that may not have garnered as much weight in the past will be looked at differently.
For the 2017-2018 season, the committee will put emphasis on where games were played. The new team sheets will still have four columns, still using RPI rankings:
1. Home Games against teams ranked 1-30, neutral-site games against top 50 teams, and road games against top 75 teams.
2. Home games versus teams ranked 31-75, neutral-site games facing teams ranked 51-100 and road games against teams ranked 76-135.
3. Home games against teams ranked 76-160, neutral court games played with teams ranked 101-200 and away games facing opponents ranked 136-240
4. All other games: Home games against opponents ranked lower than 161, neutral-site contests with opponents ranking lower than 201, and road games versus teams ranked lower than 241.
While that all seems pretty complicated, it just organizes wins and losses by home, away and neutral sites while including team rankings as well.
So all of the games in column one are more important than those in column two and so on.
What does that accomplish? The current chair of the committee Mike Hollis put it perfectly:
“Beating elite competition, regardless of the game location, will still be rewarded, but the committee wanted the team sheets to reflect that a road game against a team ranked 60th is mathematically more difficult and of higher quality than a home game versus a team ranked 35th.”
This change will have an impact year to year based on where teams play. The neutral site variation will also impact rankings based on preseason tournaments.
The NCAA is also conducting research this year to consider moving from RPI to a composite ranking that combines the many metrics that exist. So a lot more thought is going in to where teams fall in March.
Sounds like getting those quality road wins will be even more important on Selection Sunday. Also beating good/decent but not great teams on the road that may not have garnered as much weight in the past will be looked at differently.