Good news! The NCAA is finally fixing the NET…hopefully.
In 2018, the NCAA replaced the RPI with the NCAA Evaluation Tool, aka the NET, to help the Selection Committee better sort and seed teams for the NCAA Tournament. Since then, mocking the NET has become a tradition of sorts because the rankings are usually all over the place. (Remember how Duke stayed at No. 6 for most of last season despite losing so many games? Or how UK wasn’t even in the top 50 of the initial rankings the past two seasons? If computer models could get drunk, it had a hell of a good time.