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Message: [QUOTE="Billy Jack, post: 4537611, member: 4173"] You remember correctly. We were the only ranked team when conference play started. (Warning: there’s a big “but” to follow.) BUT . . . 1. It’s not like only wins over nationally ranked teams help SOS. 2. It’s not true that the rest of the conference was mediocre. Three teams received enough votes to put them just outside the top 25 in the Coaches Poll, Week 6, which is the week that Big East play began: 27 - Marquette 32 - Creighton 34 - Xavier The AP ranking was similar. 3. Rankings in the national writers’ and coaches’ polls are irrelevant to what the selection committee is looking at. They start with NCAA NET. Unfortunately standings in the NET back in December are not available, but as I recall, our teams ranked better there than they did in the national polls. [/QUOTE]