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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2104775, member: 199"] But, and again I don't care as far as Uconn is concerned, they were going to beat any team with a 12 or higher seed line by a lot of points, why is it more important to treat an SC team better (and come on - they certainly didn't earn the second #1 so Lexington was never on the cards for them) than to treat a #15 seed with respect. And you mention an interesting game - Stanford struggled mightily against their 15 seed whose record should have had them seeded behind Albany. Would Albany feel better having lost by single digits to Stanford or having their doors blown off by Uconn? All I am saying is teams play 30 or so games to get themselves into the NCAA tournament, and they deserve to have that record mean something when the brackets come out and getting shifted around across seed lines 'for the student athlete experience' is a BS excuse when it means a significant change in competition. Teams used to get shifted seeding lines only if it effected one of the committees inviolate rules, now it happens by one or two seed lines based on geography. And yes it matters competitively - Albany would trounce Texas Southern 10 games out of 10 - they are that far apart in talent. And Stanford and their 29-5 record and 4 game winning streak is very different competition than Uconn and their 32 -0 record and their 107 game winning streak. One is in the miracle realm, the other is in the major upset realm. [/QUOTE]