The NCAA mens  basketball tournament starts in earnest today. A quick word of advice for Davidson College, and other mid-major teams: Up your game. By that I mean, it’s pretty clear that the selection committee rewards teams that play a tough out-of-conference schedule. Teams that don’t — and that certainly includes Davidson, whose best out-of-coference win came against Montana (RPI rank: 133)  — get punished by either not making the tournament (Colorado State, Temple) or lower seatings than their statistical rankings suggest is warranted (Davidson, Dayton, Wichita State, Northern Iowa, etc.). So yes Davidson, your chances of making the tournament in future years would be enhance it you played more decent teams in November and December.