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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 2097042, member: 6927"] Aside from the fact that Cal did score a key OOC win over Oklahoma, the real issue is that the committee is mainly looking for quality wins more than anything. It matters little whether they happen in or out of conference, as long as they happen somewhere. Several teams were able to mitigate a weak SOS by pocketing wins over quality teams: [LIST] [*]Cal's nonconference SOS was bad (#182) but its overall SOS was decent (#41), and, more importantly, Cal scored quality wins over Oklahoma, UCLA, and Oregon. [*]Another team among the last 4 in, Northern Iowa, had the reverse dynamic: a strong OOC SOS (#25) but a weak conference schedule (bringing down its overall SOS to a very weak #120). But what got UNI in the tournament was its wins over Creighton and K-State. [*]NC State had a pitiful OOC SOS ranking (#258) and a passable overall SOS (#66), but knocked off the four best teams in the ACC. [*]West Virginia had the worst nonconference SOS (#293) of any team in the RPI top 90, but ended with a #57 overall SOS and those high-dollar wins over Baylor, Texas, Oklahoma (twice), and Kansas State. [/LIST] The central flaw in Maryland's resume is a lack of quality wins, more so than SOS. They narrowly beat Louisville but lost rather decisively to Ohio State, and then their next-best wins after that were over the bubble teams of the Big Ten. If Maryland had beaten Ohio State, they would've easily been a #2 seed, and if they'd found a way to beat UConn in December and go undefeated, they'd be a #1 and their weak schedule would be a complete non-issue. [/QUOTE]

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