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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 2014512, member: 730"] Once again, (and I'm tired of having to repeat it to you), I'm not defending MD's weak schedule. I'm pointing out that MSST has played exactly 2 quality opponents. My point (and you help me with your comment) is that a lot of MSST's RPI and SOS ranking comes from teams ranked 22-71 and almost nothing from playing teams ranked 1-20. Here are MSST's in-conference opponent's Massey ratings. I bolded all the games against top 20 teams. [B] 3[/B], 22, 25, 25, 29, 33, 34, 34, 47, 53, 60, 71, 71, 86, 95, 108 You can add one top 20 OOC opponent (#9 Texas) to MSSt's resume. This is the basis for MSSt's RPI and SOS and IMO it's not even close to the level of competition that should earn a team a one seed. Washington has 6 top 20 conference games on their schedule and you can add Massey No 6 Notre Dame to that. And I'll go further and say that it's the reason the SEC gets so many teams into the tournament but very few past the second round. he RPI was instituted for the men's game and it works better there because of the vast depth of talent compared to the women's game. What I can't understand is how people who say MD doesn't deserve a higher seed because of their schedule (and I think that's a legitimate POV) can then think that MSSt is deserving of a 1 seed. [/QUOTE]