On February 11th, the NCAA tournament selection committee released the top 16 teams in an early look ahead to the NCAA tournament bracket. The NCAA tournament starts March 13.

The (RPI) Rating Percentage Index was one of the main tools the NCAA tournament committee used when evaluating teams for selection. The RPI is consisted of 25% of your own winning percentage, 50% of the weight comes down to your opponent’s winning percentage, and the other 25% percent is your opponent’s opponent’s winning percentage.

Teams are ranked from 1-351 by RPI as there are 351 division one college basketball teams. Teams are then sorted into categories from there RPI 1-50, 51-100, 101-200 and 201 to 351. The committee looks at how many wins you have from those categories, the lower number RPI wins the better, but starting this year, there will be a new terminology used called quadrants. Quadrants are now used so that road and neutral games matter more. There will be four quadrants, and depending on the strength of your team’s victory and where the game took place determines what quadrant your win will end up in.

Quadrant 4: Home 161-plus; Neutral 201 – plus; Away 241-plus

There was some controversy after the 16 teams were revealed on February 11th.

Oklahoma was the 16^th