With the inaugural release of the NET on Monday, we now live in a world with endless references to the quality of a prospective tournament team’s wins and losses. And these references will be done within the structure of quadrant system.



Surely, you are familiar with the quadrants. A quad 1 game is the equivalent of playing a top-50 opponent at a neutral site. So that’s a top-30 team at home and a top-75 team on the road. The adjustment for game location was a long overdue change from the days when a top-50 win was a top-50 win regardless of location. Beating the 50th-best team at home is significantly easier than beating the 51st-best team on the road, so it’s great that the quad system incorporated boundaries for the quality of opponent that are roughly consistent with the difficulty of winning those games.



But there are still some peculiarities of the quadrant system as it exists. Not the least of which is the misuse of the term quadrant. Per...