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The rankings system isn't too impressed by beating those teams, so not playing Indoors hurts the team's ranking.  Totally reasonable that it affects the ranking

I disagree with this part of your post though. As I've commented before, a ranking system that consistently produces clearly wrong results should be fixed or replaced. The problem is that the computer system gives you points for your "x" best wins (X increases through the season), which assumes all teams play schedules of comparable strength. That I suspect is taken from the pro tour rankings, where you get Y points for your performance in each tournament. But college players are not pros and the assumption doesn't hold. The college basketball computer ranking systems do not seem to be afflicted by this problem despite quite different strengths of schedule. I don't understand why the NCAA doesn't switch to a better ranking system that would not require fixing each year by a committee that is too risk-averse to make any significant changes.

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The rankings system isn't too impressed by beating those teams, so not playing Indoors hurts the team's ranking.  Totally reasonable that it affects the ranking

I disagree with this part of your post though. As I've commented before, a ranking system that consistently produces clearly wrong results should be fixed or replaced. The problem is that the computer system gives you points for your "x" best wins (X increases through the season), which assumes all teams play schedules of comparable strength. That I suspect is taken from the pro tour rankings, where you get Y points for your performance in each tournament. But college players are not pros and the assumption doesn't hold. The college basketball computer ranking systems do not seem to be afflicted by this problem despite quite different strengths of schedule. I don't understand why the NCAA doesn't switch to a better ranking system that would not require fixing each year by a committee that is too risk-averse to make any significant changes.