LSU head coach Will Wade is not a fan of the NCAA’s new NET rankings, which will be used to determine NCAA Tournament seeding.
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Wade believes the formula used to calculate NET is wrong and needs to be adjusted:
“They’re going to have to adjust their formula,” Wade said during his radio show on Wednesday. “Their formula is wrong. They’re going to have to go back and adjust it in the offseason.”
Wade added on his weekly radio show:
“There’s a play on numbers that’s wrong,” Wade said. “The fifth most important category in the NET is your margin of victory, and it’s capped at 10 points. The second most important is your offensive and defensive efficiency, and there is no cap.
“Well, to (get) your offensive and defensive efficiency where you need it to be, you need to run the score up on people. Alabama did us a favor (Tuesday) by dribbling the ball out and not taking a shot so we could win by nine. That was a defensive stop for us.
“So they’re going to have to readjust the formula because they don’t want people to blow people out, but they’re basically telling people to blow people out because that’s weighted more than the 10-point (cap).”
He concluded that it actually hurts teams in power conferences:
“In our league, you get bogged down into tractor pulls in the 50s and 60s and your efficiencies aren’t going to be as good.”
The latest NET Rankings have Kentucky at No. 12 and LSU at No. 25.
