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Message: [QUOTE="Fly Rodder, post: 5587195, member: 2133"] It is not. Margin is part of the overall equation, but the bulk of the rankings is about efficiency. How many points does the team score and give up per possession. Good teams who score more points per possession tend to win more. Teams who don't score a lot points can be very good teams because they control the pace and score a lot per possession (e.g., Bennett's UVA teams). 2nd, NET in early December is not really accurate, there is still noise in there. As the season progresses and teams play each other more and there are more common opponents the rankings will start to stabilize more. I think of it like batting averages in baseball, hitting .400 in April is great, but it's not a great predictor of who the top-10 in batting average over the course of the season will be. No one will be saying that Yale should be in the tourney as an at large in March because their NET was 25 in December. [/QUOTE]