{"id":446674,"date":"2025-12-01T16:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/446674\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T16:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:54:11","slug":"arizona-wildcats-open-at-no-6-in-ncaas-first-net-rankings-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/446674\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Wildcats open at No. 6 in NCAA&#8217;s first NET rankings of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the Wildcats (7-0) jumped to No. 2 in the Nov. 24 Associated Press Top 25 poll after beating Florida, UCLA and UConn over the first three weeks of the season, the NET&#8217;s computer formula placed them behind No. 1 Michigan (7-0), No. 2 Duke (8-0), No. 3 Purdue (7-0), No. 4 Vanderbilt (8-0) and No. 5 Gonzaga (7-1).<\/p>\n<p>UA has two Quad 1 wins (Florida and UConn) and one Quad 2 win (UCLA), but has played four bottom-rung Quad 4 games that may have dragged down its rating. Michigan is 3-0 against Quad 1 teams and hasn&#8217;t played any Quad 4s.<\/p>\n<p>UConn (6-1) opened at No. 8 in NET ratings, one spot above Iowa State (7-), while Louisville (7-0 and Michigan State (7-0) rounded out the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>Officially known as the NCAA Evaluation Tool, the NET is the NCAA&#8217;s primary sorting mechanism for evaluating potential NCAA Tournament teams. It factors in the result and location of games, offensive and defensive efficiency, as well as \u00a0a team&#8217;s schedule strength.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although the Wildcats (7-0) jumped to No. 2 in the Nov. 24 Associated Press Top 25 poll after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,736,231,772,10805,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-446674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-men","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaa-division-i-championships","14":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115645360578411865","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}