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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2096941, member: 199"] Based on their RPI and really with the bottom dwellers what else is there, they should have easily fallen in the middle of the 15 seeds - there are at least 5 auto qualifiers with much worse RPI scores (Albany is at 113 and UNC Ashville is 196, Robert Morris at 181, TX Southern 169, Hampton 151, and New Mexico State at 137.) I understand the idea of drive-able sites and maybe they can have bus loads of fans come to Storrs, but at some point not just moving them a line on the S curve but 5 places down as well is a little unfair. The committee seems to go back and forth between competitive strictures and distance considerations every year, and then sometimes within years as well. This year they seem to have put an all out emphasis on distance over any other considerations - shifting teams simply to make it 'drive friendly' and not because the other rules were causing the problem. [/QUOTE]