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[QUOTE="maxw, post: 5215728, member: 13214"]
You keep saying that, but polls and seeding have a strong correlation.

Polls are the closest thing we have to the current ranking of teams from the folks that supposedly know a lot about the sport.

The most important metric the committee uses is the NET, which takes into account the SoS, margins, home/away, etc. If NET was the only metric used, UConn would get the overall 1 seed without doubt. But the committee also considers recent/early performance (which is not differentiated by the NET), and this is where the polls can give you an idea.

Here's another example where polls get the seeding right but not the NET: Gonzaga men are ranked 8th per NET but have a ranking in AP/coaches polls near 30. And most bracketologists put them around the 8th seed, which translates to approximately 29-32 by ranking.

Committee won't use polls in their seeding, but polls are a decent indicator of relative strengths of teams now, and therefore of, seeding.
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