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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 4230761, member: 6927"] I totally understand this perspective, but to play devil's (committee's) advocate for a moment, they're very focused on overall body of work; each loss of course counts but not so much that it negates the 30-ish other games played. SC took relatively bad losses to Missouri and Kentucky, but they still have a better overall resume than anyone else. They have a ridiculous 18 Quad 1 wins, including two wins over other #1 seeds (Stanford and NC State) and additional top 10 wins over LSU and UConn. No one comes close to that. Stanford also has 18 Quad wins but none over the committee's top 10 (best wins are over Maryland, Indiana, Tennessee and Arizona). Louisville may end up dropping from #4 overall to #5 behind Baylor, but they had a relatively wide cushion compared to other teams ranked below that. Iowa State, LSU, UConn, and Mich. don't have the quality wins to overtake Louisville even with the loss to Miami. Texas has good quality wins but has a really bad loss to Tech. The committee is surely aware of UConn's injuries and can consider it a mitigating factor in our losses, but that doesn't resolve the problem of a lack of quality wins. We beat TN and ND ... and then a handful of teams more or less in bubble territory. It's hard to know whether or how much our MOV in today's game vs. Villanova would influence them in where they seed UConn on March 13, but given the severe dearth of opportunities to evaluate a full-strength UConn squad against meaningful competition, UConn could use all the "good looks" they can get. [/QUOTE]

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