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Message: [QUOTE="businesslawyer, post: 2732714, member: 55"] More than annoyed by this after a night's sleep. Look -- if we're fair, we all know that, at the margins, there will always be disagreements in selection and seeding. Saying that a team with an RPI of 16 is, all factors considered, going to be seeded 17 or 18 is hardly ridiculous. That being said, the Committee has traditionally given a break at the margins to northeast/rust belt teams because the timing of the college baseball season doesn't match with the weather. A Northeastern team like UConn has to start playing games before they've even been practicing outside, has to play the first month of the season entirely on the road, has to play in UConn's case more than two thirds of its games on the road and has to overcome a lack of fan interest because by the time the weather is pleasant enough for fans to want to sit outside and watch a baseball game, the season was ending. The NCAA doesn't control the weather, but they have two choices. Just ignore the inherent advantages of playing in the sunbelt, or recognize them and bend over backwards to make sure that teams in the rust belt and northeast have a chance to compete when their performance has earned it. We had more road wins than any other major school, was the second best team over the course of the season in the fourth best conference (a conference that was closer to second than fifth) and UConn -- and fans in the Northeast -- could have been given a tournament. The next time the Sunbelt wants to leave the Union,, we should just let it.. [/QUOTE]

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