I get the NET rankings but I still scratch my head over Houston. Lose back to back games. Best wins are over Texas Tech and BYU, one of which was at home and never move from a 1.
And how about AZ? Their last 4 games are at Washington St. (Loss), USC (awful team) at home (W), UCLA (worse than USC) at home (W) and a loss at Oregon State (guess State schools play them tough) and yet they remain a solid #2.
It's not a secret anymore that beating the crap out of bad teams inflates your NET. I mean credit to Sampson..he knows he has a pretty good team and the Big 12 is a bear so why not just schedule a bunch of cupcakes and get that NET rating as high as possible before conference play.