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NCAA Meeting This Week Over New Metrics For Basketball Tourney Selection Process

The NCAA this Friday will host a meeting designed to "speed the inclusion of more metrics in the selection process" for its men's basketball tournament, according to Mike Lopresti of NCAA.com. Attendees will include statisticians Jeff Sagarin and Ken Pomeroy, Michigan State Assistant AD/Administration Kevin Pauga and ESPN Dir of Sports Analytics Ben Alamar. NCAA Senior VP/Basketball Dan Gavitt said, "There’ll be a lot of brain power in the room." The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) has "sent a message that it would like to look into the use of more advanced metrics in the selection and seeding process," an even more "powerful microscope to go with the time-honored RPI." The NCAA "listened and agreed." A group of coaches and committee members is "now at work, and this get-together is for everyone to hear the possibilities for the future." Gavitt: "They’ve got some pretty strong thoughts on what a composite metric could look like and maybe should look like. ... You need to stay relevant in the age that you’re operating in. Certainly relevant today is embracing analytics and technology to the appropriate level" (NCAA.com, 1/13). NBCSPORTS.com's Rob Dauster wrote less RPI is "always a good thing," and with Pomeroy, Sagarin, Pauga and Alamar in a "room together, you can bet your mortgage on that line of thinking being pushed forward." One of the goals of the meeting is to "develop some kind of a composite metric, another tool that the selection committee can use to differentiate teams and to find a fair way to get the 68 best teams in the country properly seeded into a bracket." Dauster: "I love it" (NBCSPORTS.com, 1/13). 

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