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Originally Posted by philcski
This is true, which is why I have less of a beef than I might normally.
But you can't say one thing ("We valued road wins highly this year") then do something else (take a team with TWO road wins, both over teams that were utterly horrible this year). Look at what Arizona did against postseason level teams on the road.
At Texas A&M, lost by 1
At UNLV, lost by 15
At UCLA, lost by 23
At Cal, lost by 14
At USC, lost by 1
At Arizona St, lost by 2
At Washington St, lost by 16
At Washington, lost by 5
I applaud Arizona for playing a brutal schedule every year, which is why they make the tournament every year. But the committee does not follow what they claim to do.
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Like I said, I think they penalized Arizona for the lack of road/neutral wins. Arizona had the resume of a 9/10-seed if it won two or three of those games on the road and lost a few more home games. I just don't think it was enough to keep them out in favor of Creighton or St. Mary's when they beat Kansas, Gonzaga, UCLA and Washington. Just because Arizona didn't get excluded for its lack of road wins doesn't mean it didn't get punished for it.