BetMGM Basketball: NCAA Tournament: Most Quadrant 1 Wins
By BetMGM writer Andrew Doughty /
● The selection committee replaced the RPI with the NET in 2018.
● Each game is placed into one of four quadrants.
● Games can move in and out of quadrants throughout the season.
Five weeks before Selection Sunday for the 2022 NCAA Tournament, 342 (of 358 total) college basketball teams have played at least one Quadrant 1 game, though only approximately 35 percent of those teams (122) have at least one Quadrant 1 win.
Here are the latest NET Rankings and full quadrant records for teams with at least one Quadrant 1 win, sorted by Quadrant 1 wins through Feb. 21, 2021:
Most Quadrant 1 Wins for the 2022 NCAA Tournament
Team NET Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Kansas 5 10-3 5-1 4-0 3-0
Baylor 6 10-4 5-1 2-0 6-0
Iowa St. 35 8-7 1-2 1-0 8-0
Gonzaga 1 7-2 2-0 1-0 13-0
Auburn 9 7-3 6-0 7-0 4-0
Purdue 10 7-3 4-1 6-0 7-0
Wisconsin 20 7-4 6-0 4-1 4-0
Villanova 7 7-5 5-1 4-0 5-0
Texas Tech 8 7-6 5-0 0-0 9-0
Alabama 22 7-7 5-1 5-2 0-0
Marquette 32 7-7 2-3 3-0 5-0
Rutgers 80 6-3 2-4 2-2 6-1
Kentucky 3 6-5 4-0 4-0 8-0
Duke 12 5-1 4-2 8-1 6-0
Arizona 2 5-2 6-0 5-0 8-0
Providence 28 5-2 7-1 4-0 6-0
Illinois 14 5-4 5-3 5-0 4-0
LSU 16 5-5 4-2 5-1 5-0
Seton Hall 36 5-6 2-3 6-0 2-0
Tennessee 11 5-7 5-0 4-0 5-0
Texas 15 5-7 4-1 1-0 9-0
Xavier 25 5-7 4-1 4-1 4-0
Boise St. 30 4-1 5-4 5-0 6-1
Miami (FL) 67 4-1 5-4 6-3 4-0
TCU 53 4-5 4-3 3-0 6-0
UConn 17 4-6 7-1 1-0 7-0
Ohio St. 18 4-6 4-1 6-0 3-0
Stanford 103 4-7 1-3 4-2 6-0
Kansas St. 60 4-9 3-3 1-0 6-0
Arizona St. 118 4-9 1-4 2-2 3-1
USC 24 3-1 5-2 9-1 6-0
Colorado St. 31 3-2 6-1 4-1 7-0
Wyoming 38 3-2 5-0 4-2 9-0
UCLA 13 3-3 5-2 6-0 6-0
Memphis 44 3-3 3-4 5-2 4-0
St. Bonaventure 83 3-3 3-3 1-1 10-0
Arkansas 23 3-4 6-0 6-2 6-0
San Francisco 27 3-4 5-1 4-1 9-1
Michigan St. 29 3-5 6-2 5-1 4-0
BYU 55 3-5 4-3 3-0 7-1
Creighton 62 3-5 4-2 5-1 6-0
Virginia 82 3-5 4-2 4-3 6-0
Saint Mary’s (CA) 21 3-6 5-0 4-0 9-0
Michigan 34 3-7 3-3 4-1 4-0
Missouri 147 3-9 1-5 2-2 3-1
Oklahoma 45 3-10 4-2 1-1 6-0
New Mexico St. 76 2-0 3-2 7-2 8-0
Murray St. 26 2-1 2-0 5-1 14-0
SMU 46 2-1 3-3 7-1 7-1
Davidson 49 2-1 3-3 8-0 8-0
UAB 51 2-1 2-3 4-2 10-1
Loyola Chicago 37 2-2 2-3 8-1 8-0
Dayton 52 2-2 5-3 4-0 8-3
VCU 58 2-2 4-4 6-1 6-0
UC Irvine 116 2-2 0-1 2-3 7-1
Pittsburgh 169 2-3 2-6 5-6 2-2
Oregon 63 2-4 4-3 3-3 7-0
Florida St. 107 2-5 3-4 4-3 5-1
San Diego St. 33 2-6 3-0 6-0 6-0
Indiana 43 2-6 3-4 3-0 8-0
Notre Dame 57 2-6 4-1 8-1 4-0
South Carolina 94 2-6 3-2 5-2 5-0
Florida 50 2-7 3-2 5-0 7-1
Vanderbilt 79 2-7 2-3 6-2 4-0
UNLV 91 2-7 1-3 5-0 7-1
Mississippi St. 47 2-8 1-1 7-2 6-0
Penn St. 84 2-8 2-4 3-1 4-0
Maryland 93 2-8 4-2 3-4 4-0
St. John’s (NY) 66 2-9 1-1 5-0 7-1
Minnesota 100 2-10 0-1 6-1 5-0
Oklahoma St. 54 2-11 4-1 2-2 5-0
West Virginia 75 2-12 4-1 2-0 6-0
Grand Canyon 102 1-0 1-4 4-2 10-1
UNCW 199 1-0 0-2 6-3 10-3
UC Davis 215 1-0 0-0 1-1 8-5
UMass Lowell 258 1-0 0-2 2-3 7-8
North Texas 39 1-1 5-2 3-1 9-0
Missouri St. 65 1-1 3-3 7-4 8-1
Buffalo 110 1-1 1-2 2-3 10-2
Wagner 115 1-1 0-1 2-0 15-1
VMI 142 1-1 2-2 5-6 5-3
Eastern Wash. 222 1-1 0-3 1-4 10-5
CSU Bakersfield 283 1-1 0-2 0-7 3-5
Belmont 56 1-2 3-3 4-0 15-0
South Dakota St. 68 1-2 1-0 8-1 13-1
Chattanooga 69 1-2 2-0 9-3 8-2
Iona 70 1-2 1-1 10-2 10-0
Louisiana Tech 105 1-2 0-4 3-0 12-1
Monmouth 123 1-2 1-1 9-4 6-2
UNC Greensboro 153 1-2 2-2 5-6 7-2
Col. of Charleston 167 1-2 1-3 3-4 9-3
Southeast Mo. St. 263 1-2 1-1 0-6 8-7
Wichita St. 78 1-3 2-6 4-2 6-0
Drake 89 1-3 2-4 4-2 11-0
Hofstra 98 1-3 1-3 7-2 8-1
UNI 104 1-3 3-2 4-4 7-1
Oakland 144 1-3 1-0 4-3 10-4
ETSU 176 1-3 1-2 7-6 3-4
Texas Southern 208 1-3 0-3 0-1 12-4
Lipscomb 278 1-3 0-3 0-4 8-7
Wake Forest 40 1-4 5-3 7-0 8-0
Saint Louis 59 1-4 3-3 4-2 9-0
Cincinnati 88 1-4 2-2 2-4 11-0
Louisville 124 1-4 3-7 4-4 4-0
Austin Peay 288 1-4 0-3 1-3 6-6
Iowa 19 1-5 5-3 4-0 8-0
UCF 92 1-5 3-2 3-1 9-1
NC State 133 1-5 1-5 4-5 5-1
Portland 186 1-5 0-2 1-4 12-1
LMU (CA) 214 1-5 0-4 3-5 4-2
Santa Clara 72 1-6 2-1 5-3 10-0
Colorado 81 1-6 3-2 6-1 8-0
North Carolina 42 1-7 4-0 11-0 4-1
Texas A&M 71 1-7 2-2 5-2 7-0
Nevada 126 1-7 1-5 3-0 6-1
Georgia 212 1-7 1-6 0-7 4-1
California 139 1-8 2-5 1-3 7-1
Utah St. 64 1-9 4-1 4-1 5-2
Ole Miss 106 1-9 5-0 2-4 5-1
Northwestern 77 1-10 2-1 2-2 6-0
DePaul 112 1-10 2-3 1-1 8-0
Butler 127 1-12 3-3 2-0 5-0
What Are Quadrant Records?
Prior to the 2018-19 season, the committee replaced RPI (Ratings Percentage Index) with NET (NCAA Evaluation Tool), which “relies on game results, strength of schedule, game location, scoring margin, net offensive and defensive efficiency, and the quality of wins and losses.” It also omits “certain types of data” including game date and order to ensure early-and late-season games carry equal weight, and caps margin of victory at 10 points “to prevent rankings from encouraging unsportsmanlike play, such as needlessly running up the score in a game where the outcome was certain.”
The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee has used Team Sheets to build the NCAA Tournament field for decades. Those Team Sheets, however, have undergone several facelifts in recent years as the 10-person committee utilizes better data to select and seed the 68 teams.
What is a Quadrant 1 Win?
While we don’t know how the NET works–the NCAA refuses to release the algorithm–we do know it’s the foundation for Team Sheets (and drives Bracketology projections). The sheets, one per team, place each game into one of four quadrants:
Quadrant 1: Home NET 1-30, Neutral NET 1-50, NET Away 1-75
Quadrant 2: Home 31-75, Neutral 51-100, Away 76-135
Quadrant 3: Home 76-160, Neutral 101-200, Away 136-240
Quadrant 4: Home 161-plus, Neutral 201-plus, Away 241-plus
As NET rankings change, games can move in and out of quadrants. For example, a Quadrant 1 home win over the NET-29 team in December could become a Quadrant 2 home win by March if that team drops outside the NET 30. Not until all regular-season and conference tournament games are played that quadrants are locked.
Andrew Doughty is a writer for BetMGM and host of The Lion’s Edge, an NFL and college football podcast available on Apple Podcasts and everywhere else. Twitter:@DoughtyBetMGM
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