When the NCAA Division I Selection Committee for the women’s basketball tournament meets this upcoming season, there will be a new metric that committee members consider when figuring out where to place squads in the 68-team bracket.
It’s called Wins Above Bubble — or simply WAB — and it’s been a popular metric used in the men’s game for a few years and was officially used by the men’s selection committee last season.
In a Her Hoop Stats newsletter from 2021, writer Calvin Wetzel laid out what the metric’s purposes are: “It answers the question, ‘How many more wins does Team A have than the number of wins a
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