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Originally Posted by SniperSB23
Unbalanced schedule. Since they didn't play at North Carolina you might as well treat them as a 10-6 team instead of 11-5. Even if you want to treat them as 11-5 they still lost first round and finished 11-6. Duke meanwhile went 14-5.
Wake isn't #16, they were #14, Washington was #13. They got bumped down to playing Louisville cause the committee couldn't put them in the same bracket as North Carolina and Duke.
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could have put them in the same bracket as Duke since they wouldn't potentially meet until the Elite 8, but they decided not to. I thought the selection committee actually did an outstanding job this year of seeding the teams. The top 4 lines are very balanced. It really looks like they made the effort to get the best positions possible within the rules, and the commissioner said they did spend a lot of time on it this year.
How I had them seeded 1-16 after all the conf tournaments ended:
Louisville, UNC, Pitt, UConn
Memphis, Duke, Michigan State, Kansas
Oklahoma, Syracuse, Missouri, Wake Forest
Villanova, Washington, West Virginia, Florida State
(Gonzaga 17, Xavier 18)
How it looks like the committee seeded them on the S-curve:
Louisville, UNC, Pitt, UConn
Memphis, Duke, Oklahoma, Michigan State
Kansas, Syracuse, Villanova, Missouri
Washington, Xavier, Gonzaga, Wake Forest
(Florida State 18, West Virginia ??)
* Keeping in mind they probably had to move West Virginia out of the 4-5 game because they wouldn't be able to face 3 of the 4 #1's until the Elite 8, if at all possible. That's why they're probably the best #6 I've ever seen, and like you said Wake had to be shifted down two on the curve to fit as well.