NET Rankings Over the Last 5 Seasons

[HuskerFever]

For the data nerd out there, you may enjoy this one. I've kept having a suspicion that some middle-of-the-pack teams in other conferences have been taking basketball more seriously. In particular, it just seems that the SEC is starting to put the money where their mouth is. Just figured some other people may find some interesting insights in my waste of a Saturday afternoon.

 

Nebraska's ranking was far from any average conference team up until the last two seasons:

 

When compared to the top conference teams (~top 4 or so teams depending on conference), Nebraska was able to surpass the top Pac-12 teams last season.

 

In the past two seasons, Nebraska had a better ranking than four of the top seven conferences:

 

And fortunately, Nebraska surpassed all of the bottom teams in each conference (~4 bottom teams):

 

However, when looking at a five-year average, Nebraska is only better than the AAC conference average, along with the all of the bottom-dwelling conference teams:

[PimpMario]

In five years this will look different