Three thoughts on San Diego State’s 1 08-107 double overtime loss against Troy at Viejas Arena on Tuesday night:

1. Margin of error

How bad was it?

Bad. Really, really bad.

Troy is certainly a better team than its record, which includes losses at Loyola Marymount and Cal State Northridge, suggests. But the computer doesn’t know that, and the NCAA Selection Committee probably won’t know that. It will just see a Quad 3 smudge on SDSU’s resume and frown.

The NCAA’s NET metric sorts games into quadrants based on their location and your opponent’s standing. Quad 1 and 2 wins are good, Quad 3 and 4 losses are bad. And Troy, which entered the night with a Kenpom ranking of 135, falls squarely within the parameters of Quad 3.

Or look at it this way: Of the 37 teams that received at-large b

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