Xavier’s NET reflects missed opportunities

Add these guys’ numbers together and you still don’t get to Xavier’s NETIt’s way too early to starting talking resume for Selection Sunday, so let’s start talking resume for Selection Sunday. The first NET rankings of the year are out. Xavier is off to a pretty poor start, coming in at 48th. That is in large part because of those precious “good losses.” As it turns out, the NET doesn’t actually like those.

Xavier is 48th. Their quads break down like this Q1: 1-3, Q2: 1-0, Q3: 0-0, Q4: 4-0. That leaves Xavier at 6-3 with one really good win, one decent one, four Q4 wins, and three losses. For some reference, in the final NET rankings before Selection Sunday last season, Wake Forest was 48th.…