ACC slate is rough, NET Quadrant Home/Road discrepancy is badly skewed IMO
We are kind of getting screwed by it in our conference schedule. I understand why it's in place, and should certainly be used. But I just think it can be a poor reflection of a team's quality win/losses. Let's use Quad 2 for example. Right now a home win vs Miami (#31 NET) is viewed the same as a road win vs Lipscomb (#135 NET)... which is absurd! But no one will ever actually dive that deep into a teams resume to see that, they'll just see a quad 2 win or loss.
For VT not only is our schedule difficult in the simple sense of winning a tough road game, but also in the sense that this NET Quadrant home/road discrepancy significantly hinders our Quad 1 opportunities. We have about 10-11 potential Quad 1 games right now. Flip flop our home/road schedule & we'd likely have close to 14-16 Quad 1 chances.
Now the plus side for VT is there is a Quad 1A category which is essentially viewed as a massive non-flukey Quality win, & is noted so on the Team sheets used for Tourney Selection. We currently have 8 Quad 1A opportunities.. AKA... Big Time resume boosting quality wins. Winning 2-4 of those would be huge for the resume. Obviously everything will fluctuate throughout the season so these numbers won't stick, but helps to give an idea of what we are working with.
*Note* - I often use Warren Nolan for the Net team sheet stuff (Linked). But his SOS & Result's based metrics rankings are sometimes off/inaccurate. Would use the Teamsheet Ranks page on Barttorvik.com for all the metrics rankings.
Posted: 12/04/2025 at 12:50 PM ET
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ACC slate is rough, NET Quadrant Home/Road discrepancy is badly skewed IMO
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-- VickFlick_Skip
Dec 04, 2025 at 12:50 PM ET
VickFlick_Skip
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12/04/25 12:50 PM ET
Just win. All this worry over Q1, Q2 etc isn't necessary. Just win games
-- King of Hokies
Dec 05, 2025 at 04:53 AM ET
King of Hokies
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12/05/25 04:53 AM ET
If you flipped our H/A schedule, we'd have less Q1 opportunities
-- hoosnowahokie
Dec 04, 2025 at 02:02 PM ET
hoosnowahokie
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12/04/25 02:02 PM ET
Yea my math was a little off, when did NCAA start posting the team sheets?
-- VickFlick_Skip
Dec 04, 2025 at 02:18 PM ET
VickFlick_Skip
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12/04/25 02:18 PM ET
They just started at the beginning of the month for this year's sheets**
-- hoosnowahokie
Dec 04, 2025 at 02:25 PM ET
hoosnowahokie
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12/04/25 02:25 PM ET
That's good stuff. Thanks**
-- VT ChemE 1986
Dec 04, 2025 at 01:02 PM ET
VT ChemE 1986
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12/04/25 01:02 PM ET