Give Golden credit, he created a schedule that manipulates the NET

6th place in the conference:

2022-23 Southeastern Conference Standings

Team CONF GB OVR

1. Alabama 5-0 - 15-2
   
2. Texas A&M 4-0 0.5 12-5
   
3. Auburn 4-1 1 14-3
   
4. Tennessee 4-1 1 14-3
   
5. Georgia 3-1 1.5 13-4
6. Florida 3-2 2 10-7
7. Vanderbilt 2-2 2.5 9-8
   
8. Missouri 2-3 3 13-4
   
9. Kentucky 2-3 3 11-6
   
10. South Carolina 1-3 3.5 8-9
    
11. LSU 1-4 4 12-5
    
12. Arkansas 1-4 4 12-5
    
13. Mississippi State 1-4 4 12-5
    
14. Ole Miss 0-5 5 8-9

 

6th place at season's end may get us to the dance.

 

He inherited the schedule.

 

we are also #6 in the SEC in kenpom .

With A&M (rising) and Mississippi St (falling) on the road this week, this is a chance to move back into the march madness discussion, with most experts thinking that there could be 7 SEC teams going to the tournament

2023 Pomeroy College Basketball Ratings

 

I choose to think of us as tied with UGA for 5. They've played one less conference game and we have the head-to-head.

That said, kudos to CMW for starting 3-1. Didn't see that coming at all. Of course, #225 schedule helps. They beat Auburn, but the other two wins were against the bottom two SEC teams.

 

Interesting, with all the broadcast love given to A&M these days, we're actually several KenPom spots ahead of them.

 

FAU is 16-1

 

No quad 3-4 losses and only one quad 2 loss really helps us. We have basically lost a bunch of tough games on the road or at neural sites, and that mitigates the poor record to some degree.

 

And #4 in RPI, but nobody ares about that useless metric anymore.

 

It's best for the Gators if FAU runs rampant over that conference and makes the NCAAT. I gotta hand it to FAU, that was a good team they put on the floor against us. If we played it today, I'd bet on the Gators, but it would still be a tough game.

 

No. FAU, UConn, couple more “buys” too.

 

Scheduling has almost nothing to do with NET. NET is manipulated by running up the score which we've done against some mid-lower level teams while keeping it close in most of the losses, hence a slightly higher NET than you'd expect based on the W/L results alone.

 

It has to do with results vs. quality of competition, therefore it has a LOT to do with scheduling.

 

Strength of schedule matters to committee come tourney time. At end of day, these stats are only important to bubble teams. If top 6 in SEC at end of the season, we likely make the NCAA tournament. If 8th, NET and SOS matter for bubble selections