Home games against teams ranked in the top-30, neutral site games against top-50 opponents and road trips to top-75 teams are all classified as quad one. The team sheet breaks games into four quadrants based on opponent rank in the NET. More important than any of those metrics and rankings, however, is the breakdown of results shown on the team sheet. Embedded in the team sheet is a slew of information, including the team’s rankings in various metrics, including the RPI, KenPom, Sagarin, Basketball Power Index, Kevin Pauga Index and Strength of Record, plus of course the NET. Perhaps nothing better encapsulates the resume than the NET team sheets the selection committee receives. Those factors collectively, of course, make up a team’s resume. That is, it’s one of many factors considered not only in who makes the tournament, but what seed they receive. Granted, the RPI is an antiquated, nearly useless metric that has diminishing impact on a team’s NCAA Tournament chances, but it does remain something the selection committee looks at on Selection Sunday. If anything, it may have helped the Hawkeyes as just playing (and losing to) the top-ranked Boilermakers pushed Iowa’s RPI up two spots. But that loss did little to impact Iowa’s NCAA Tournament resume. Despite a dominant showing at home on Thursday night against Ohio State, the Iowa Hawkeyes dropped what would have been the marquee win of the season a week ago when they fell on the road to #1 Purdue.
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