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Message: [QUOTE="Orangutan, post: 3072546, member: 4946"] I really don't see how Mississippi State should be a #1 seed, especially over Louisville. This is Creme's reasoning: [I]"The Bulldogs earned the No. 1 seed by completing the clean sweep of the SEC regular-season and tournament championships. Despite a weaker overall résumé than Louisville, Oregon and Stanford, Mississippi State is the only one with two titles and just two losses."[/I] So Mississippi State gets a #1 seed despite a weaker overall resume just because they won the 5th-strongest conference by RPI? And Louisville doesn't get a #1 because they lost to the #1 RPI team in the championship game of the #1 RPI conference? That doesn't add up to me. Louisville has the #3 RPI, #4 SOS, and is 12-3 against the RPI top 50. Miss St. has the #8 RPI, #40 SOS, and is 8-2 against the RPI top 50. All Miss St. has going for them is one fewer loss. Well, not everyone gets to play RPI #65 Arkansas in the final of their conference tourney. If Louisville got to play a weak opponent like that in their tourney final, they'd only have two losses, too. Pre-conference tourney, their records are similar. Both one loss to a top-5 RPI team away (L'ville to ND, Miss St. to Oregon). Both one loss to a conference team at home (L'ville to Miami, Miss St. to Missouri). Even then, ND is better than Oregon and Miami is better than Missouri. And Louisville's schedule is stronger overall. So their X-2 record in the regular season is better than Miss. St. [/QUOTE]

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