See where the national bracket pundits have both Hawkeye squads ahead of Selection Sunday.
Twenty-nine hours from now, we will have the brackets for the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments.
It's an exciting time of the year regardless, but this looks to be the first year the Iowa men's and women's team will both qualify for the Big Dance since 2023.
Jan Jensen's Hawkeye women's team has done nothing but win in that time frame - finishing as the runner-up to UCLA in both the Big Ten regular season and tournament races - while the men have showed promise under first-year head coach Ben McCollum.
Various national bracket pundits have voiced their opinions on both Hawkeye teams, but before we can do that, let's take a look at where Iowa women's basketball stands in the latest NET rankings.
RELATED: A Look At Iowa Men's Basketball's Metrics Before Selection Sunday
According to the official NCAA website, the NET ranking is defined as this: The NET includes more components than just winning percentage. It takes into account game results, strength of schedule, game location, net offensive and defensive efficiency, and the quality of wins and losses.
The NET ranking also determines the quality of wins a team can have to booster its NCAA tournament resume. The NCAA created a quadrant system to break this down. Quadrant 1 wins are considered the best, while a Quadrant 4 loss is considered to be detrimental to a team's tournament resume.
Using the quadrant system, which was in its fourth season in 2020-21, the quality of wins and losses will be organized based on game location and the opponent's NET ranking.
- Quadrant 1: Home 1-30, Neutral 1-50, Away 1-75
- Quadrant 2: Home 31-75, Neutral 51-100, Away 76-135
- Quadrant 3: Home 76-160, Neutral 101-200, Away 135-240
- Quadrant 4: Home 161-353, Neutral 201-353, Away 241-353
The number of Quadrant 1 wins and Quadrant 3/4 losses will be incredibly important when it comes time for NCAA tournament selection and seeding.
With all of that being taken into consideration, here's where Iowa women's basketball rank in the NET:
Ranking: No. 10
There's not a lot of additional explaining necessary here. The Hawkeyes are in the position they're in right now because they've stacked up quality win after quality win all season long. Iowa's 51-point loss to UCLA in the Big Ten championship game didn't move it a muscle - a sign of the Hawkeyes' strong body of work.
Women's Bracketology
Charlie Creme, ESPN:
Bracket released on March 13 Megan Gauer, Her Hoop Stats:
Bracket released on March 13 Matthew Walter, The IX Sports:
Bracket released on March 11 Autumn Johnson, NCAA:
Bracket released on March 11 Men's Bracketology
Joe Lunardi, ESPN:
Bracket released on March 13 James Fletcher III, On3:
Bracket released on March 14. David Cobb and Jacob Fetner, CBS Sports:
Bracket released on March 14 801 Bracketology:
Seed list released on March 14 T3 Bracketology:
Seed list released on March 14 Delphi Bracketology:
Bracket released on March 14 Andy Katz, NCAA:
Bracket released on March 11 Where can I watch the selection shows?
The men's selection show will air at 5 p.m. on CBS - potentially later if the Big Ten tournament championship game goes to overtime - while the women's selection show is scheduled for 7 p.m. on ESPN.
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