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Originally Posted by King Glorious
The only thing that really bothers me is how they seemingly give some teams an injury pass and don't give the same to others. UConn's great body of work came with their injured guard. Since he's been out, they've just gone 4-3. I think it's good to want to reward them for having a really good season but you've also got to realistically seed them on what their current chances are. The loss of James hurt Marquette really bad. I think if he doesn't get hurt, Marquette would have been strong #2 consideration. St. Mary's is in the tournament if Mills doesn't get hurt. If others are seeded, or in St. Mary's case not even selected, how come the same didn't happen to UConn? I thought that with him, they were a strong second choice to win the whole thing but they can't without him.
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While I agree with you on the injury considerations (and more of the committee's bullsh1t like "we valued road records highly this year"- yeah, OK) I have less of a problem with St. Mary's not getting in as most. Their body of work wasn't all that strong, in the end. They only went 3-4 against the top 100 and three of their wins were non-D1. They certainly passed the "eye test" when Mills was healthy but I present this argument:
RPI TEAM RPI SCORE RECORD SOS NON CONF RPI NON CONF SOS CONF RPI CONF SOS TOP 25 TOP 50 TOP 100 LAST 12 ROAD ONLY RPI ASM
47 Illinois State .5813 24-9 98 .533 37 161 73 92 9 0-0 2-2 5-4 7-5 38 5.3 3.0 8.3
48 Saint Mary's .5808 23-6 152 .503 29 93 114 194 15 0-0 2-3 1-1 7-5 24 4.6 3.1 7.7
One could argue Illinois State had a better profile and they weren't even being considered.
I do have a problem with Creighton not getting in over Arizona.
42 Creighton .5908 26-7 110 .528 47 136 48 106 9 1-0 1-2 7-3 11-1 25 8.1 0.5 8.6
59 Arizona .5716 19-13 31 .583 38 75 67 54 5 2-1 3-8 3-3 7-5 126 6.2 1.2 7.4