College basketball is rolling out a new method to determine which teams make it to March Madness this season.
After 37 years of using the Rating Percentage Index (RPI) to determine which teams would receive at-large bids to the Big Dance, the NCAA men’s basketball committee is preparing to showcase the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) during the 2018-19 season.
The NET will be calculated by six different factors: game results, schedule strength, game location, scoring margin up to 10 points, offensive and defensive efficiency and the quality of wins and losses.
It’s more complex than the RPI, which only factored in Division I (D-I) winning percentage, opponents’ D-I winning percentage and their opponents’ D-I winning percentage.