The Western Athletic Conference will reportedly seed its conference tournament using KenPom ratings
The Western Athletic Conference is changing how it seeds its men’s and women’s postseason basketball tournaments by introducing a system that will not only judge teams off of wins and losses, but also through an algorithm that will reward–and/or punish–teams based on their performances against all of their regular season opponents., the WAC is believed to be the first conference to introduce a conference tournament seeding method that will incorporate advanced analytics.
“The goal [is] ultimately to protect the highest résumé with the highest seeds,” Thornton told CBS Sports. “As we were coming up with this strategic plan from a basketball standpoint–which was one of my big tasks when I came here–nonconference scheduling always came up. … And ultimately, it becomes very hard to penalize people for what you’re able to do from a nonconference scheduling standpoint.
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