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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3638641, member: 6927"] First of all, anyone who viewed Maryland objectively over the course of the season would have to acknowledge that the team that ran the table in the second half of the season was almost unrecognizable from the one that lost four games in the first half. After losing a tight game at Iowa on Jan. 9, just five weeks later Maryland crushed them by 34, as part of a 17-game win streak with no win margin closer than 9 points. And if Oregon was capable of losing to Arizona State, and Baylor was capable of losing to Iowa State, I wouldn't be so quick to assume that Maryland would have no chance against either of them. Similarly, while I think UConn *should* have won hypothetical games against the likes of Northwestern and Iowa, I'm not terribly confident that the team would’ve won had they played like they did in the Memphis and Vanderbilt games, among others. It's pointless to hypothesize about "what if Maryland played in the American". The conference affiliations are well known in advance, and it's on the teams to schedule around them accordingly. In previous years, MD *appeared* to draw the short end when the Big Ten was relatively weak and offered precious little in the way of quality wins, when in reality it was MD's weak nonconference schedule that undermined their seeding on those occasions. By the same token, UConn's weak conference schedule has been a well-known axiom, and it's a victim's mentality to claim that our conference somehow "did us dirty" as if they just snuck up behind us in a dark alleyway. And back to regularly scheduled programming: Congrats to Kiki and to Stanford! They sound like a great fit, and Stanford is shaping up to be a formidable team for years to come. [/QUOTE]

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