Arizona ranks in the top 15 of the four major metric sites on Selection Sunday. Bart Torvik and the ESPN Basketball Power Index have Arizona ninth, KenPom has the Wildcats 14th and they are 12th in the NCAA Net Ratings . Those numbers should help Arizona’s NCAA Tournament seed.
The loss to Houston on Saturday is respectable with the Cougars first in Bart Torvik. Arizona is ranked ninth in the Bart Torvik power ranking which is the chance an average team would have beating a Division I team. The Wildcats are 15th in the Bart Torvik Wins Above Bubble.
Arizona is 11th in Bart Torvik adjusted offensive efficiency and 28th in adjusted defensive efficiency. In some of the other Bart Torvik metrics, Arizona excels in offensive rebounding rate ranking ninth nationally at 35.9. Team rankings have Arizona 19th with a 34.6 offensive rebounding percentage…