NC State basketball weekly NET report: Wolfpack with work to do in ACC

There is likely to be a lot of volatility in the NCAA’s NET rankings for another month, but for NC State basketball there has not been much change in its status.

Two weeks after the initial release debuted the Wolfpack at No. 136, NC State basketball has risen seven spots to No. 129. There are 358 teams in the Division I rankings.

According to the NCAA’s web site, 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 Wolfpack is one of abnormally high seven ACC teams ranked outside of the top 100. Only four conference teams are in the top 50: Duke (8), Wake Forest (34), Virginia Tech (28) and North Carolina (49). Clemson has been the league’s big riser, climbing 34 spots since the first release to No. 64.

More important than the rankings are the quad systems to which the NET is used to sort teams.

Thus far, NC State basketball is 0-4 in the crucial quad one/two contests, with recent setbacks against Purdue in overtime and a close defeat in Charlotte to Richmond proving to be two lost opportunities.

Texas Southern’s gigantic rise of 120 spots in the NET gives the Pack a second quad three victory, joining the earlier win over Louisiana Tech. However, Colgate dropped from a quad three to quad four victory since the first release.

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 Sunday:

3. Purdue — L (neutral) (down two since release on Dec. 3)

8. Duke — TBD (road) (up three)

28. Virginia Tech — TBD (road, home) (up 12)

34. Wake Forest — TBD (home, road) (down three)

49. North Carolina — TBD (road, home) (down 23)

63. Clemson — TBD (home) (up 34)

71. Oklahoma State — L (neutral) (down nine)

75. Louisville — L (home), TDB (road) (down 22)

78. Florida State — TBD (home, road) (down one)

84. Virginia — TBD (home) (down 14)

86. Louisiana Tech — W (home) (up 10)

89. Richmond — L (neutral) (up nine)

106. Miami — TBD (road) (up 17)

122. Syracuse —TBD (home) (down 5)

129. NC State (up seven)

132. Notre Dame — TBD (road, home) (up 25)

153. Texas Southern — W (home) (up 120)

157. Georgia Tech — TBD (road) (down 10)

158. Boston College — TBD (home) (down 47)

174. Colgate — W (home) (down 28)

222. Nebraska — W (home) (down 30)

232. Pittsburgh — TBD (road) (up 24)

298. Wright State — TBD (home) (down one)

308. Bucknell — W (home) (up 19)

321. Bethune-Cookman — W (home) (down three)

337. Central Connecticut State — W (neutral) (up two)

***Note there are 358 teams in the NET.

Broken down by quadrants NCAA committee uses (quadrant four wins are disregarded by NCAA committee):

Quadrant 1 (Home 1-30, Neutral 1-50, Road 1-75): 0-1 w/6 remaining

Quadrant 2 (Home 31-75, Neutral 51-100, Road 76-135): 0-3 w/6 remaining

Quadrant 3 (Home 76-160, Neutral 101-200, Road 136-240): 2-0 w/7 remaining

Quadrant 4 (Home 161+, Neutral 201+, Road 241+): 5-0 w/1 remaining

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