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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 4882291, member: 37"] I have the same sentiment. It’s great to know which statistics are important and the scheduling that is required to get the numbers for a favorable tournament seeding. But it’s foolish to look at those statistics in a vacuum. Having a veteran team and/or team with most of the players returning from a successful year is the perfect time to factor in a better SOS. This was not the situation for UConn. There was a lot of player uncertainty coming into this season. If you consider this is really Samson’s first year of playing the staff needed to develop seven players with little or no time playing college basketball, one veteran player with no experience playing for UConn, and one player who went from a bench player to the starting lineup. I can’t imagine Hurley had no input in the scheduling. I can’t imagine he didn’t consider the implications this scheduling would have on the SOS. My guess is he needed as many “practice” games as possible to allow so many unknown parts to coalesce. The fact that it coalesced as quickly as it did, as you pointed out, could not have been predicted. I’m scratching my head trying to understand why there is so much criticism regarding the scheduling when the choices made by the staff have been successful two years running. It certainly can hurt in some unknown future but it’s just as likely that a better schedule can result in problems. [/QUOTE]