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Message: [QUOTE="Hiemdall, post: 4225869, member: 8676"] My post is specifically responding to the Net ranking system and not relating to the original poster. In my personal opinion, the NET model needs to be recalibrated to reconsider its weights on margin of victory. I suspect (without trying to review the raw numbers feeding to the models) UCONN, NC, and other's teams have many games with large victory margin against more weaker team are skewing their relative position more than it should. I believe the committee realizes that and added their subjective view of how they would seed teams. Unfortunately, no one can exactly know how they did it unless you are part of the group. If NET or any ranking system is perfect, we wouldn't need the committee anymore :). Injury assessment has always been difficult to assess. While committee should consider it, but it really should weight its consideration more on actual game they can observe because that is less subjective than these hypothetical scenarios people are constructing. UConn looks great the last few games. But how would they react to a significantly better defense from a team like Louisville, where the players are more athletic, organize, and deep relative to the BE teams? How would these player coming back (I don't assume they are back to 100% yet) handle this kind of pressure the entire game? Louisville might be very inconsistent on its offense, their defense is top notch and consistent. These are things Q3 and Q4 defense will not be able to expose. Thus using them as eye test is not conclusive. Lastly, regarding to the case of fairness, I think the biggest unfairness is to place one team with home court advantage against another team that is higher and close in seeding. I understand the economic reasoning, but it does not make it fair. I personally think a compromise can be make to elevate UCONN to a 2 seed, but I hope they are not in Bridgeport. I rather see them show up at Final Four because they are really that good and without any advantage. I rather put my focus on watching a beautiful game of basketball between two teams on neutral setting. UCONN being a 3 seed and not playing at Bridgeport due to past injuries isn't a bad things. It developed player more so than they would otherwise and gives player opportunity to learn to be more fluid and creative with their role. It also exposes some development weaknesses in the system. UCONN's bench typically consists of players ranks higher than most other team's starter (Yes, even the two freshman that hardly see the court). It is not unreasonable for people to expect more (maybe even the committee). Geno will probably get alot out of this as I don't think he ever has to deal with something like this before. Maybe he will modify his system to integrate new players earlier. I honestly believe it is good for the team as a whole. At the end of the day, this team's ceiling is so super high, every team has to go through SC to get the title. Playing them in the regional is not so bad. Also Stanford and other top seeds are well coached as well. Any of them can still give us a great final. [/QUOTE]

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