What is in the NET today?

This basketball is in the netPeriodically this year I’m going to be looking at Xavier’s NET and what exactly it means. For some review, here’s what I wrote about where X needs to be near Selection Sunday in order to feel safe:

38th was the safety line. Below that, Oklahoma (39th), Xavier (40th), Texas A&M (43rd), SMU (45th), and North Texas (47th) all landed between the safety line and 48th and didn’t make the tournament. There is still a committee interpretation to deal, so the NET isn’t a simply be all-end all, but it is the most accurate guide to what the committee will do.

For the rest of the year we will use that 38 number as our goal for the Musketeers. Again, that’s not a guarantee,…