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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 3046177, member: 730"] The "top 50 wins" is a fine stat when you have 7 teams all about the same and only 3 slots left on the board. but not of much use as a measure of quality wins for a team looking for a 1 seed. The 20-50 teams slide up and down those rankings all season and any team looking for a 1 seed should "[I]easily[/I]" beat any of them. It's just a function of the limited elite talent that ends up concentrated in about 20 teams. When giving out 1 and 2 seeds the question should be [I]"can this team beat a top 5 team on a neutral court?" [/I]One[I] [/I]seeds win against other top 5 teams. And if you compare the contenders UConn has the best win, a road win against then No 1 by 18 pts. Baylor has beaten no one of note on the road but then Baylor rarely plays any OOC games at that level and there isn't another team close to that level this year in the B12. But they did beat UConn, not badly but decisively. Louisville had probably their best game beating UConn since the Irish Massacre last season. So UConn lost 2 of handful of top level games. But very few had even 2 road games against 1/2 seed type teams. UConn had 3. But why care at all? You want to be the champ? Then don't act like you need an easy path. [/QUOTE]