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Originally Posted by springborofan I took a little time to dig a little deeper into where UD falls in the latest NET rankings. Currently, UD is 92. Fair enough, our guys have the three really ugly losses. There is some good and bad in the resume relative to other teams. Assuming UD goes 13-5 in conference and gets to the conference final, it will be very interesting to see how the committee looks at UD with a 23-11 record (8-5, 13-5, 2-1). I don’t want to try to estimate which games UD wins/loses for the remaining A10 schedule but just taking a snapshot from today. The Good: UD is currently 5-3 in Q1/Q2 (2-0, 3-3 62.5 winning %) Next closest team with 5 Q1/Q2 wins is 81 Miami (1-1, 4-2 62.5%) Next closest team with 2 Q1 wins and 5 Q1/Q2 wins is 57 Memphis (2-2,3-3,50%) Next closest team with greater than 62.5% is 42 Colorado State (1-1,3-0, 80%) Next closest team with 2 Q1 wins, 5 Q1/Q2 wins and >62.5% is 37 WVU (2-2, 3-0, 71%) The Bad: Next closest team with TWO Q4 losses is 121 6-6 Buffalo (4-2, Q4) Next closest team with at least 3 Q4 losses is 169 6-7 Niagara (5-4, Q4) All of this is mostly just interesting at this point. It shows how much the 3 losses have hurt UD this year. That said, going back to my initial end of season scenario, I think the committee would really have a hard time measuring UD. Obviously, UD would climb quite a bit from its current 92 and, I would argue would have to be in consideration. So, what does the committee value? For years, I’ve heard it quality wins. UD would have over 10 Q1/Q2 wins and better winning % than many of the middling Power 5 schools.

Committee has been consistent that quality wins will override bad losses, but you need enough quality wins for that to occur. 10 Q1/2 wins would be pretty impressive.