they benefited massively from Syracuse being rated number one even though they are clearly far from being a typical #1 ranked team. If syracuse had lost to BC before playing dook, than there's no way duke even moves up from the loss. Timing has a lot to do with things. If UConn beats Florida when they are ranked #1, than that would have helped us a lot more than beating them with a much lower ranking. If we had lost to smu when they were ranked, than that wouldn't have hurt us very much at all. Unfortunately neither were the case.
To me we are a 5 seed right now. If we play as well down the stretch as we have played all season, than I think we end up with a 5 seed and if we win the American, than probably a 4 seed or possibly a 3 depending how other teams ahead of us right now finish the season. If you look at the rankings, than you will see that a close loss to a highly ranked team is actually better than a win against a very low ranked RPI team. If we could throw out wins against Temple and put in close losses to kansas and Arizona, than we might be ranked higher. I'm serious. OR if we had an easier schedule and only had 2 losses like St. Louis does. I feel like we are in the middle. Hard enough of a schedule to have 5 losses even though we have several very good wins, but easy enough where we are discredited for beating a lot of teams we have beaten.
