#52 in NET (down 1 spot before yesterday's game)

[maroonmania]

How would you suggest a system incorporate 'how a team is playing right now' in a way that seems fair and legitimate?

I genuinely struggle to understand why people have an issue with the NCAA Tournament selection process. It is a group of people who are able to consider weird things that won't show up in the numbers but who have a data-driven system to help sort things out in that process. It is pretty much the best possible way to go about this.

There is absolutely a 100% way to do it and that would be that your last 10 games or so are weighted more heavily than those before but that wouldn't fly with teams that want their good wins back in November and December to be given full credit. So we have what we have. I was just pointing out that there was absolutely no shame in losing to OM in Oxford right now (granted it should not have been a blowout) but it is treated like a really bad loss by the NET. Just bad luck on our part I guess. But I can tell you that if KY had been playing in Oxford this past Saturday instead of Lexington, they would have lost as well. Actually how you played in the last 10 regular season games was an actual criteria of the NCAA committee up until a few years ago when determining who got in with the lower seeds.