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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3474926, member: 6927"] Make no mistake -- Purdue is in largely because of their quality OOC wins over Drake and Arizona State. Beating Western Kentucky is a top-50 win as well, albeit over a bubble team. Those wins matter. I don't think Versyp is an outstanding coach, but I give her credit for scheduling up -- #20 NC SOS -- which is way more than I can say for many of her colleagues. And this year it really saved her bacon, because only a win over Ohio State would've likely been insufficient. Michigan State did better in B10 play against a slightly tougher in-conference schedule, but they had an awful OOC where the beat a bunch of horrible RPI teams and lost to every decent team they played. Those games matter. The loss to #245 UCSB is indeed awful. So is the fact that 7 of USC's 11 OOC games were against teams outside the top 200. Having two good wins is nice, but not always enough. Ask Georgia Tech about that -- they have 3 good wins, which altogether are better than USC's wins -- and they don't have any losses as bad as UCSB. Yet they're almost certainly out (although their minuscule chances are higher than USC's). [/QUOTE]