OK, folks, so, yeah, it’s official – the computers that the NCAA Tournament people use are stupid.
Virginia (19-5, 10-3 ACC) won its fourth straight on the road last night, at Florida State – that was a Quad 1 win in RPI, incidentally – and actually dropped in two of the six computer rankings, and held in a third.
| Metric | Previous Rank | Rank Today | Change |
| SOR | 27 | 22 | +5 |
| RPI | 29 | 28 | +1 |
| KPI | 30 | 24 | +6 |
| NET | 32 | 34 | -2 |
| BPI | 33 | 33 | 0 |
| KenPom | 47 | 48 | -1 |
| Average | 33 | 31.5 | +1.5 |
Yeah, this makes sense.
The win gives Virginia a 2-2 record in Quad 1 games and a 7-4 record in Q1 and Q2 games overall.
Compare that to, say, the resume of Duke, which also has four true road wins, a 5-2 record in Q1 games, and an 0-3 record in Q2 – two of those losses being at Arkansas (NET: 130) and at Georgia Tech (NET: 133).
Virginia’s Q2 losses: at Memphis (NET: 77), at NC State (NET: 80).
NET has Duke at 20, and Duke’s average rating across the six is 20.8.
Bad news for Virginia fans here: even going 2-0 this week won’t be a help in the computers, with both games being at home, against Pitt (NET: 61) and Wake Forest (NET: 33).
Those are both Quad 2 games for the ‘Hoos.
There are three Quad 1 games still on the regular-season schedule: at Virginia Tech (NET: 54), North Carolina (NET: 10) and at Duke (NET: 20).
Time to channel Tony Bennett here: just keep chasing quality basketball.
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