The Longhorns' NCAA tournament bid was blocked by the selection committee. Sunday offered the first evidence of the impact of a new metric on the NCAA men’s basketball tournament’s selection process. The NET — the acronym for the NCAA Evaluation Tool — replaced the long-used and much-maligned RPI as the formula the NCAA utilized to size up teams for selection and seeding. [The 2019 men's NCAA tournament cheat sheet]Ultimately, though, the data is going to get the most attention. It will be pored over in the months to come as shrewd programs try to figure out exactly what they can do to improve their chances of landing NCAA tournament berths in the future.

Source: Washington Post March 18, 2019 16:30 UTC