NC State basketball NET report: Pack takes big jump after quad one win
In a highlight of how volatile the NCAA’s NET rankings can still be in early January, NC State basketball jumped 38 spots in one day after its 68-63 win over Virginia Tech on Tuesday evening.
The victory also qualifies as a quad one win and stopped the fall, at least temporarily, that the team has been suffering. NC State debuted at No. 136 in the initial release, and on Dec. 19 in the most recent NET report update was at No. 129.
A five-game losing streak had seen the Wolfpack fall all the way to No. 181.
According to the NCAA’s website, the NET rankings use two factors:
“The Team Value Index (TVI), which is a result-based feature that rewards teams for beating quality opponents, particularly away from home, as well as an adjusted net efficiency rating. The adjusted efficiency is a team’s net efficiency, adjusted for strength of opponent and location (home/away/neutral) across all games played. For example, a given efficiency value (net points per 100 possessions) against stronger opposition rates higher than the same efficiency against lesser opponents and having a certain efficiency on the road rates higher than the same efficiency at home.”
The ACC has been slowly gaining a little traction in the NET, with now nine teams ranked in the top 100 and two more teams knocking on the door.
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More important than the rankings are the quad systems to which the NET is used to sort teams.
While the Wolfpack did pick up a quad one victory in Blacksburg, it also possesses two quad three defeats in a home loss to Florida State and neutral-court defeat against Richmond. The setback to Wright State in PNC Arena also qualifies as a quad four L.
NC State basketball and the NET rankings
These are the sorted rankings used by the NCAA Tournament committee (with sorted being the key word) for NC State and its opponents in the 2021-22 schedule. What is more important is the quadrant rankings below them.
This is updated through games of Tuesday:
8. Duke — TBD (road) (no change since last NET report update on Dec. 19)
13. Purdue — L (neutral) (down 10)
35. North Carolina — TBD (road, home) (up 14)
38. Virginia Tech — W (road), TBD (home) (down 10)
46. Wake Forest — TBD (home, road) (down 12)
64. Clemson — TBD (home) (down one)
71. Oklahoma State — L (neutral) (down nine)
72. Louisville — L (home), TDB (road) (up three)
74. Virginia — TBD (home) (up 10)
78. Florida State — W (home), TBD (road)
82. Louisiana Tech — W (home) (up four)
93. Miami — L (road) (up 13)
103. Richmond — L (neutral) (down 14)
104. Notre Dame — TBD (road, home) (up 28)
109. Syracuse —TBD (home) (up 13)
143. NC State (down 14)
161. Georgia Tech — TBD (road) (down four)
180. Boston College — TBD (home) (down 22)
182. Texas Southern — W (home) (down 29)
211. Pittsburgh — TBD (road) (up 21)
217. Nebraska — W (home) (up five)
225. Colgate — W (home) (down 51)
270. Wright State — L (home) (down 28)
322. Bethune-Cookman — W (home) (down one)
324. Bucknell — W (home) (down 16)
333. Central Connecticut State — W (neutral) (up four)
***Note there are 358 teams in the NET.
Broken down by quadrants the NCAA committee uses (quadrant four wins are disregarded by NCAA committee):
Quadrant 1 (Home 1-30, Neutral 1-50, Road 1-75): 1-1; 4 remaining
Quadrant 2 (Home 31-75, Neutral 51-100, Road 76-135): 0-3; 7 remaining
Quadrant 3 (Home 76-160, Neutral 101-200, Road 136-240): 1-2; 3 remaining
Quadrant 4 (Home 161+, Neutral 201+, Road 241+): 6-1; 1 remaining
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