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[QUOTE="domestu, post: 4983185, member: 1089"]
The number of wins is not a benchmark for getting into the NCAA Tournament. The NET is based around the quality of the teams you play and the stature of the teams you beat. Right now SU has only defeated one opponent who would be in the NCAAs if Selection Sunday was this weekend. Although Cornell and Colgate could win their conference tournaments, Carolina is our only victory over an opponent that will definitely be in the Big Dance.

If this was the 1980s and a school in the Big East won 20 games or won half of its conference games, they would probably be a lock for a bid once the tournament expanded to the 64-team format in 1985. But we are in a conference with fifteen members that doesn't feature many top flight teams and the overall mediocrity of the league could result in only four ACC schools making in the NCAAs.

Beating Notre Dame at home isn't going to move the needle on SU's NET ranking and a win at Louisville is comparable to our road victory at Georgetown. Virginia Tech and Clemson currently are higher in the NET than anyone other than UNC that we have beaten and a win in either of those games would probably lock us down for a NIT invite. I agree with Marsh that three more wins will guarantee Syracuse a bid to the NIT.
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