The Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball team faces an uphill battle to reach the NCAA Tournament this season. Despite an improved NET ranking, their remaining schedule presents significant challenges with a focus on Quad 1 wins.
The men's basketball season is officially underway. The Cavaliers have already played one ACC game, a 63-51 loss at SMU on December 7th, but now Ron Sanchez and company will enter the full conference slate with nothing but ACC games from here on out. With UVA having a bit of a holiday break with nine days between games, that gives us some time to evaluate where things stand for Virginia at this point in the season.
Let's take a look at the NET Rankings, the primary sorting tool used by the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee to select and seed the field of 68 at the end of the season. Virginia (7-5) is currently No. 102 in the NET and 10th among ACC teams. Believe it or not, that's actually an improvement over UVA's placement in the NET last season. We're going to list Virginia's remaining schedule and indicate which Quadrant each game would fall under given Monday's NET rankings. Quad 2: Home 31-75, Neutral 51-100, Away 76-135 Quad 4: Home 161-353, Neutral 201-353, Away 241-353 December 31st vs. NC State | NET No. 103 | Quad 3 January 11th at Stanford | NET No. 83 | Quad 2 January 21st vs. Boston College | NET No. 204 | Quad 4 February 1st vs. Virginia Tech | NET No. 210 | Quad 4 February 8th vs. Georgia Tech | NET No. 173 | Quad 4 February 22nd at North Carolina | NET No. 34 | Quad 1 March 4th vs. Florida State | NET No. 82 | Quad 3 The NCAA Selection Committee places a large emphasis on Quad 1 wins and Quad 3 & 4 losses. As it currently stands, Virginia has five Quad 1 games remaining on its schedule, five Quad 2 games, six Quad 3 games, and three Quad 4 games. That will change, of course, but this gives a rough visualization of UVA's remaining schedule and which games will be most important for the Cavaliers if they want to have any hope of making a run at the NCAA Tournament. But we're not going to sugarcoat it; the outlook of Virginia making the NCAA Tournament this season is pretty bleak
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