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[QUOTE="freescooter, post: 3863303, member: 1023"]
You know what, the standard for getting into the Tournament isn’t really who can win it.  Occasionally a lower seed does it but it’s pretty rare. If that were the standard you’d probably go back to the 1950s and just take 8 teams.  Really you take every league champ and then at least in theory, the next 32 “best”. Despite all the statistical analysis that is still a beauty contest once you get past the first 8-10.  Realistically it really doesn’t matter who gets the 8-12 seeds which is sort of where those 6-8 bid from a league teams end up.  They aren’t going to win.  They are there to fill out the field and the sponsors, the NCAA and the networks all would prefer to see Duke and Michigan State and Maryland, schools who people have heard of rather than Monmouth or Bellarmine.  I haven’t researched it but iirc 3 in the 64 + team era seed 8 (3), 9(1), 10(1) and 11(4) made the Final Four. So it’s not like those teams getting the extra bids are likely going anywhere anyway.  They are mostly bracket fillers no matter what Lunari or NET or RPI tell you.
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