NCAA announced the tournament will use the newly created NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET). It will take into account results, strength of schedule, location, scoring margin, offensive and defensive efficiency, and quality of wins and losses. Supposedly will be available around end of November or early December.

Game margin is capped at 10 which seems pointless to even use it as a measure and then set the threshold that low. It is nice that all games carry equal weight. So a win in December is as good as a win in March.

I imagine it will mirror or look similar to kenpom, sagarin, massey or the likes. I am sure this does not benefit the mid majors at all for working hard to get high RPI numbers. I think this will lend its hand to more majors playing each other early in the year to boost their own numbers for strength of schedules etc to help weed out the mid majors. Hope I am wrong, but I do not see this helping close the gap between the haves and have nots.

This is still a big change for the NCAA who has used the RPI as a measure since 1981. I wonder how simple it will be for the committee to not look at and use RPI at all