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[QUOTE="bpo57, post: 5004393, member: 1572"]
Appreciate your response.

It is interesting to compare Loyola and Dayton. There is an 18 game sample size in the A-10 and Loyola finished with a better record and beat Dayton head to head. But somehow it's more important what happened in November/December. Meanwhile the differential in NET between the two is more than 60 slots. One advantage Dayton has is it was highly ranked from the jump while Loyola wasn't even in the top 100. They had a bad year last year and were relying on transfers this year. They started slowly but began to mesh in January and now the two teams have been essentially even yet one is a middle of the pack seed and the other is miles away from inclusion.

There are so many goofy anomalies when it involves the NET and the matrix and most of it revolves around the foolish emphasis on games played 3-4 months ago. In my opinion it distorts the selection process and really screws up the seedings.

I'll give an example. Auburn has been in the top six for NET and kenpom for at least a month. All 24 of Auburn's wins have been by double digits. Meanwhile KU has played like total dog sheet for at least a month and yet they're a 3 and Auburn is the lowest rated 4 seed.  Makes no sense.  Any 2 or 6 seed that draws KU in their bracket is lucky while the 1 or 5 seed that has Auburn in their bracket is not so fortunate.
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