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Auburn basketball’s first full week of SEC play provided it with some harsh, but mostly unsurprising, realities
With two road trips, the second-ranked Tigers managed to come out of it 2-0, but their victories came by an average of 4.0 points, avoiding a furious comeback from Texas on Tuesday before having to mount a comeback of their own — without All-American Johni Broome — to beat South Carolina on Saturday.
INJURY UPDATE: Auburn basketball says Johni Broome suffered “non-surgical” ankle injury
Still, Auburn enters another week with just one loss and an undefeated record against its conference. Even with the status of Broome still unknown, the NCAA Tournament projections are favoring the Tigers to be the highest seed in the field of 64 come March Madness.
Those projections are warranted, as Auburn’s favored highly by several criteria the selection committee looks at in making its assessments, in addition to subjective factors like the “eyeball test.” Among them:
Record: The team’s overall record, conference record, and nonconference record.
Strength of schedule: The strength of the teams the team played against.
Head-to-head results: The results of games between the teams being compared.
Conference championships: Whether a conference championship was won in the regular season, or tournament.
Common opponents: The results of games against common opponents.
Adjusted Net Efficiency (NET): The NCAA’s preferred metric measuring a team’s overall performance during the regular season.
Team Value Index: A results-oriented component of the NET that ranks teams based on who they beat and where they played.
Rating Percentage Index (RPI): A formula that ranks teams using a team’s winning percentage, opponents’ success and opponents’ strength of schedule.
While Auburn is comfortably seeded as the best team in the country, it’ll be looking to maintain that status after being on the wrong end of a first-round upset in last year’s tournament, when 13-seed Yale spoiled the Tigers’…
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Author : The Montgomery Advertiser
Publish date : 2025-01-13 09:07:00
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