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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 3066936, member: 730"] Actually it's almost impossible for a non-P5 team. The P5 teams don'y like to play good mid-major teams in the stronger mid major conferences, and if they do it's only in their own arena. Most P-5's know the RPI/SOS game and avoid teams that can beat them OOC. P-5 teams aren't exactly lining up to play teams like Buffalo, FGC, Green Bay et al. They are avoided like the plague. Who's BLAMING anyone? And for what? I'm just giving my opinion based on what I have read over the last 10 years or so. The only thing you have correct is that I don't like the way the NCAA runs it's tournament. But that is a topic for another thread. It's no secret that most sports writers are in a symbiotic relationship with the game they cover. Some are merely hucksters, paid to promote the sport, not to report the sport. Some are insightful analysts. But they are all selling the game. Now I admit that without ESPN wcbb wouldn't have hardly any exposure at all. But let's not pretend that they are some unbiased news source. Those people courtside and in the studio are there primarily to promote wcbb and criticizing the organization that runs it is not on their agenda. [/QUOTE]