TCU Basketball: Why the Horned Frogs deserve to make the NCAA Tournament

Head-to-head Comparisons

While the selection committee doesn’t compare teams to other teams when deciding who is more worthy, the resumes of teams clearly matter in selection. Let’s compare TCU to a couple of other bubble teams.

Belmont Bruins

Record Advantage: Belmont

NET Advantage: Belmont

KenPom Advantage: TCU

Strength of Schedule Advantage: TCU

Telling stat: Belmont’s strength of schedule is 199. Belmont has losses to Green Bay and Jacksonville State, and lost to Murray State by eight in the OVC Championship game.

Lipscomb Bisons

Record Advantage: Lipscomb

NET Advantage: Lipscomb

KenPom Advantage: TCU

Strength of Schedule Advantage: TCU

Telling Stat: The Lipscomb Bisons play in one of the weakest conferences annually in the country in the A-Sun. However, the Bisons lost to Liberty twice as well as Florida Gulf Coast. Additionally, Belmont beat Lipscomb twice. There is no chance Lipscomb makes it over Belmont.

UNC-Greensboro Spartans

Record Advantage: UNCG

NET Advantage: TCU

KenPom Advantage: TCU

Strength of Schedule Advantage: TCU

Telling Stat: The Spartans have no losses outside of Q1, but they really didn’t beat anybody inside that level either. They lost to LSU, Kentucky, Wofford three times, and Furman. They beat Furman twice, which is nice, but Furman is even further off the bubble than UNC-Greensboro is themselves.