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...category, adopted on the recommendation of coaches following last spring’s meeting in Florida, allows teams to earn bonus points in the RPI with “quality wins,” defined as non-conference victories over teams with the 15 highest RPI ratings. This has the potential to influence selection because the committee uses the teams’ RPI in a system of comparisons—the PWR, essentially—to arrive at the 16-team field...
...Bonus points have added ambiguity to the selection process, and NCAA officials emphasized their intent to keep it that way during a conference call with reporters yesterday afternoon...
...That has not been made known to the public; it’s just going to be something for the committee,” said Ian McCaw, selection committee chairman and athletic director at the University of Massachusetts. “The bonus points aren’t subjective. They’re a mathematical calculation. They don’t add subjectivity, but they add a new factor...
...impact that bonus points will have on tournament selection and seeding depends on the number of points given for each “quality win” and whether or not that boost will be enough to move teams past those in front of them...
...Bonus points could make a difference, or there could be a reasonable gap between the teams and it wouldn’t make a difference,” said Tom Jacobs, NCAA director of championships. “There might be an impact on the final seeding, but it’s really hard to say at this point because we don’t know the disparity. But I would think they would tend to have a more modest impact than a significant...