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Road Wins Matter More Now in College Basketball

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The NCAA announced on Friday that there will be a greater emphasis on quality road wins beginning next season. Wake Forest has already scheduled tougher under the helm of Danny Manning, and it is likely that something like this will benefit the Demon Deacons moving forward, especially since it finally got the monkey off its back with regards to road futility.

From the article, this new system will evaluate teams accordingly:

Next year, teams aiming for the NCAA tournament will be evaluated according to quality home wins (top 30 in the RPI), neutral-site wins (top 50) and road wins (top 75).