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This season, the NCAA Tournament selection committee is using a new system to judge a team's resume.

Instead of examining each team's top 50, 100 and 150 wins, etc. the committee now uses a quadrant system to judge each team. Below we take a look at how No. 17 Michigan's resume looks. U-M is 22-7 overall and 11-5 in the Big Ten.

Those four quadrants are as follows:

The committee still relies on the outdated Rankings Power Index (RPI) system, which can be found HERE. The ranking system is based 75 percent on strength of schedule and only 25 percent on the team's wins.

Quadrant one wins count most heavily compared to the other three quads. Losses in this category also don't hurt the team very much.

As of Feb. 21, these are the quadrant one wins and losses the Wolverines have.

As you can see, five of Michigan's seven losses fit into this category. None of them will be looked at as bad losses.

The Wolverines would, however, like to grab a couple more wins here. Penn State is No. 76 in RPI, making it one spot out of a quadrant one victory. That could change by the end of the season.

Maryland is No. 61 in RPI currently, meaning a Michigan win on the road over the weekend would secure it another quad one win.

That accounts for all of Michigan's losses. None are overly bad, but losing to LSU early and Northwestern in Big Ten play are a bit of a stain on the resume. What Michigan is really missing out on is several more non-conference quality wins, since it really only has two — UCLA and Texas.

This quadrant is fine, but Michigan would've liked to have had most of these Big Ten wins in the quadrant two category. The conference overall being down and having a poor non-conference schedule hurts them. Any loss is quadrant three or four is seen as a huge negative come selection and seeding time.

Any loss in quadrant four would likely be seen as unforgivable, so it's a good thing Michigan doesn't have any. This section does indicate how poor the team's non-conference schedule was — including the worst team in the entire country, Alabama A&M. It's win over Chaminade also does not count in the eyes of the committee because it was not against a division one opponent.

If Michigan went out and only scheduled teams in the top 200, its strength of schedule would skyrocket. Currently, U-M's strength of schedule is No. 82 in the nation.

The Wolverines are in a good position to end up in the five-seven seed range with another few wins.

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