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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 2009955, member: 730"] MD beat Ariz St on a neutral court and beat Louisville on the road. And they stayed within 10 against UConn. Miss St beat Texas at home and lost the only quality team they faced on the road. They both beat everyone else and IMO all those games are meaningless in determining who is the better team. Massey ranks MD 6th and Miss St 7th virtually tied by the numbers. They use an algorithm so there is no prejudice toward any conference. Now I am not saying how each should be seeded but making MSSt a one seed while making MD a three seed is way too big a gap. SOS is not much of a measure of a team's strength. It's fine to break a tie between two teams but my eyes tell me that MD is a better team than even S Carolina, never mind Miss St. Don't let a close game between two SEC teams fool you. MD's offense would defeat Miss St's defense. Remember, most everyone thought they had a dominant defense last year, mostly based on the rest of the SEC not being able to score against them. But we all saw that paper tiger exposed in the S16. Many are buying what ESPN said, that MD was downgraded because of their schedule. But remember that ESPN has a vested interest in seeing SEC teams in the spotlight and little interest in having teams whose games are on BTN or the PAC12 Network be in the spotlight. [/QUOTE]