Strength of Schedule isn't very important these days, because it's pretty obviously a flawed stat, especially at the extremes.
Miss Valley St is historically bad, one of the worst teams of this decade. They're killing our SoS numbers. But in addition, thanks to DePaul, No. Arizona being worse than expected, and our general weak cupcake scheduling, we've played 7 teams ranked in the 300s. That's very bad.
Strength of Schedule is too simple for cbb. D1 has a long tail. There are like 60 teams that matter, but there are 240 teams between 60 and 300+. So what happens is that even if you schedule the same number of great teams and terrible teams, your SoS gets dragged down.
Thankfully, modern metrics account for schedule in everything you do. Everything has an expected value based on the opponent, and you're judged by how you perform compared to that number.
Looking at just the strength of schedule is looking at just the adjustment. It's not the meat and potatoes of performance. It's like looking at the green beans and not the whole plate.
In that sense, the committee may look at strength of schedule as a tiebreaker or as one of many factors, same with quad records, away/neutral record, record against teams in the field, etc. But ultimately it's not that important, because it's already baked into more useful numbers on the teamsheet.
The SoS will move a bit, but the new unplayed portion will be worth only 20% of the total since we've played 25 games already.
