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Message: [QUOTE="Rooster C., post: 4179337, member: 10168"] You just continue to see things that just aren't there my friend. There is no "secret agenda" going on here promoting P5 conferences lol. The more objective I try to be, the more you try to box me in to having some ulterior motive. You can check my posts elsewhere and see that I have both advocated including more non - p5 teams in the NCAA tournament as well as suggesting that certain coaches should be on the "hot seat" for lack of performance over time - all p5 schools, including most like Virginia and Illinois which you mention. I agree Rutgers, Wisconsin, and Washington aren't very good this year either. It is a down year overall for non-p5 schools, which usually see C.Michigan, S.Dakota St., Drake, Buffalo, and many others have better seasons than they are this year. The whole comparison was meant to be "blind comparison" of similar ranked/unranked teams. I completely agree that playing against a DePaul or Gonzaga is a far better indicator than playing against Virginia or Illinois but I'm not the one doing the ranking and that was my whole point. A close loss playing at Maryland, UConn, Indiana, or Louisville should count more than a big loss at home against a middle-of-the-road P5 team. A win over USF or FGCU should count more than a win over Minnesota or Cal. I was providing the information as it was : 5 P5 teams with identical 7 - 3 records and very similar victories over bottom-of-the-barrel non-p5 schools. The key difference between them was their losses - who they lost to and where. Yet, the pollsters still favored some teams with much worse losses than those they didn't rank. Now that we're well into conference season most of what I was trying to point out has taken care of itself. Kentucky (Team #1) was at that time the highest ranked among the five and has deservedly dropped like a rock. Iowa (Team #2) has deservedly continued to rise. UCF and other non-P5 schools should have been getting more consideration than they were also and that was my point. That the pollsters have a bias in favor of the "usual suspects" and are not being objective until forced to do so when the losses start to pile up. [/QUOTE]

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