There hasn't been too much to shake up the NET rankings this week beyond two major results: Kentucky's win over Kansas and Michigan State's upset loss to Purdue (I told you all it was coming, haha). Thus, instead of doing the NET breakdown like I've been doing over the past few weeks I figured it might be a good time to do a "blind resume" exercise to see if how we perceive the strength of the top teams corresponds with the data provided on the NCAA Team Sheets, which are primarily driven by the NET rankings instead of the RPI now.
Below, I've made a table with the resumes of the seven teams that I think the consensus is are reasonably in the running for No. 1 seeds (note that I'm moving to seven teams despite talking about a "top-6" recently... you may have an inkling as to why, but I won't spoil that to maintain the anonymity of the exercise!). All of the data is taken directly via the NET Rankings and the Team Sheets through games played on January 27, meaning that if the season ended today, these would be the primary data points provided to the committee. When I list wins/losses, I'll again keep things anonymous by listing them as something like "H19", which would be a home win (or loss) against the team ranked 19 in the NET. Obviously you may be able to suss out who is who, but try not to spoil it for everyone, haha.
Based off of this, I'm curious to see what people think about not only who the 4 No. 1 seeds should be, but also who the No. 1 overall seed should be. I'll put the later question as a "poll" (since there are 35 possible outcomes of 7 choose 4 for those mathematically inclined out there, haha), so keep your responses about the 4 No. 1 seeds to replies. Sometime later today I'll try to compile everyone's thoughts and reveal who is who and see if anything interesting has come about from looking at team resume's not through the lens of the big names, but instead through the NET data. Enjoy!
Team A B C D E F G Record 17-2 16-3 18-1 18-3 19-2 19-1 17-1 NET Rank 3 8 1 6 2 4 5 KPI Rank 2 10 1 3 4 5 6 "Q1" Record 6-1 5-2 4-1 8-3 3-2 5-1 4-1 "Q2" Record 3-1 2-1 6-0 4-0 2-0 5-0 4-0 Q1 Wins H1, N8, N18, A33, N26, A63 N9, A12, A26, H16, H27 H10, N13, A22, A59 H11, A25, A30, A36, A37, H22, H30, N43 N3, A47, A58 H9, H11, A21, A41, A56 N2, N12, N16, A36, A54 Losses N2, H48 N3, A44, N64 A3 A11, A12, N16 N5, A9 A13 N16 Non-Conference SOS 8 38 222 113 67 153 30 Overall SOS 6 33 67 24 58 64 39