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NCAA Will Put Greater Emphasis On Road Wins Starting Next Season

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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.
 
It's about time. Winning on the road, even against mediocre teams, is extremely difficult.
I don't know if there is another sport where home court advantage is as strong as it is in college basketball. You definitely should get more credit for road wins than home or neutral court wins.
 
Would like to see them openly discuss timing of the games too, but that probably takes too much work on their part.

Teams with short turn arounds from a previous game, or on a final game when a # of games happened in a short time frame, like a 4th game in 10 days or something like that.

Never hear them mention those kind of things.
 
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It's about time. Winning on the road, even against mediocre teams, is extremely difficult.
I don't know if there is another sport where home court advantage is as strong as it is in college basketball. You definitely should get more credit for road wins than home or neutral court wins.


Really? As a cat fan....you should understand how hard it is to beat a favored SEC team on their home field in FB especially if you are a visiting underdog team from a rival conference. How you don't or can't know that is beyond me. Care to enlighten this board?
 
Love this. That win is Rupp Arena this upcoming season is now going to garner us a #1 seed in the tournament too. Sweet!
 
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