Biggest Takeaways from the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee's Top 16 Reveal

(Both NET and KenPom are deeply rooted in margin of victory and efficiency.) But they have seven Quadrant 1 wins—tied for the third-most in the nation.As a result, the committee disregarded the new sorting tool and vaulted Marquette ahead of a lot of teams—including NET No. 10 Virginia Tech, which was left out of the top 16 likely because of some combination of its 3-4 Quadrant 1 record and its abysmal nonconference schedule.Two other teams were positively impacted by Quadrant 1 wins. But the Blue Devils have resumed their dominant play at full strength, so it's no big deal.(It's unclear whether the committee will equally discount that huge road win by the Orange, but my gut says it will not.)Conversely, committee chair Bernard Muir spoke about the difficulty of evaluating Kansas' resume during the No. 2 and No. 3 seed conversation:"While Kansas has a similar number of Quadrant 1 wins as [Michigan State], we thought Kansas' performance on the road [1-6], along with the unfortunate season-ending injury to Udoka Azubuike, kept the Jayhawks behind Purdue," he said. Houston and Wisconsin are a bit worse than their NET rankings, in the eyes of the committee.But unless there's something about a resume that jumps off the page—such as a bunch of Quadrant 1 wins or an unsightly strength of schedule—it seems like the committee is more or less going to default to the NET rankings.Twelve of the 16 teams have a NET ranking within two spots of where the committee seeded them, and three of those teams are in the same spot on both lists.