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I guess we now know how 5 at large from the mvc happened in 2006
What was he going to say, they beat UConn in December? Literally the only thing he could say is the big east should get 4 teams and everyone elses response would be a few weeks ago they only lost to Nova by 25. They only lost to Creighton by 20 and UConn by 30 2 weeks ago. They only lost SJU by 19 3 days ago. Their NET is 59. My bet is if those games are somewhat competitive our efficiency numbers are better making our NET better and giving us a real shot. My guess is he picked his battles and it was battling for the seeds of the teams who got in.
Maybe your anti cynicism posts about this are without some merit. They should not even have the appearance of these conflicts in the selection process. Not a good look for the committee and the NCAA.
The very selection committee is made up of AD and Commissioners from P4 and then mid major conf...like forever
Might have been but he needed something to stand on other than we had a big win 3 months earlier and we finished 4th in the conference. Nothing in the final 60 days of the season that said we’re playing good basketball. We beat a lot of non tournament teams. 4 gigantic blowout losses, 2 of them to non tournament teams. Maybe he could’ve said the other teams are equally mediocre but if that’s the best you got, it’s not good.
That doesn't mean that they don't have inherit conflicts of interests or they don't have an agenda. The lack of Q1 wins don't matter for UNC it is the Q2 wins that count. Oh wait Texas had 5 Q2 losses and were sub .500 in conference and Q2.
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They didn’t mention any of that and perhaps was used by people against us who wanted other teams - those many blowouts shown up in NET - but what they did state publicly was our non-conference. It was atrocious. We had 0 quality wins, a bad Q3 home loss (Rutgers) and our NET during the non-con was about 115.
Delusion lives in an walks of life. Many here want an identical forumula year over year as the utopian answer for at large admission. There are so many variances for that to be an impossible task. I don't agree with all the seed lines or locstion pod placement but it is a group that did the best effort they could and are ultimately not perfect.
A long winded post about nothing and nobody here is advocating for expansion with more teams. At least SHU Hoops has some points about the Butler guy pointing out the SHU blow outs and beating UConn. Then the committee flip flopped on that with UNC this year.
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That is the shape of the selection committee
Well, it seems that “doing enough” is a moving target. The fact is SHU was in the bracket as a 10/11 seed. They fell out of the bracket due to an unprecedented 5 bid stealers. This year there was one. The average is between 1.7 and 2.4 depending on how the analysis is conducted. So, IMHO last year’s SHU team “did enough” but fell victim to an unprecedented situation.
As a grassy knoll theorist I prefer to focus on their 1-12 against Q1. For added measure I recall their academic scandals a few years ago. When in doubt I mix in Roy Williams. Final piece is the general arrogance of large and powerful state university ADs
You forgot to mention the Quad 3 UNC loss and that Xavier has none.....
Byu is a 6th seed...they have to play Thursday Saturday. Perhaps that impacted pod placement and region placement.
