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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3829013, member: 6927"] You have managed the dual feat of both missing my point and, unwittingly, backing up my point (as well as the wisdom of Mencken and our resident mensch [USER=8516]@Sifaka[/USER] ). My point was about conference affiliation [U]per se[/U] being an advantage in postseason play. Your point is about experience in close games being an advantage — quite a separate question. But let's run with your point anyway. I guess that all that close-game experience in "competitive" conferences must explain why the Final Fours over the past two-plus decades have been so thoroughly dominated by conferences such as: — the SEC, which has won exactly 1 out of the last 20 national championships. — the ACC, which has boasted the last team standing in a whopping 2 out of the past 25 Final Fours. — the Pac-12, which hasn't held aloft the national trophy in 30 years now. I guess it also explains why Tennessee, having played in multiple close games, was able to prevail on January 21 in a close game over UConn, who up until then had played no close games. Oh wait ... It bears repeating: "Neat, plausible, and wrong." Credit to Mencken. [/QUOTE]