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Message: [QUOTE="navery12, post: 5212719, member: 6271"] It's not dependent on an algorithm, the point is that the teams we'd be lined up to play as an 8/9 seed are SIGNIFICANTLY better than as a 6 or a 7 seed. Maybe we still beat one of the 1 seeds, I'll think we have a chance against anyone, but there is a huge difference. Right now Duke would be favored by 13 points against UConn on a neutral court, Auburn by 12, but someone like Tennessee or Arizona it drops to 6 points. Obviously it's all conjecture and nothing is written in stone, but we will have a much better chance of beating a 2 seed than a 1 seed. As for your KenPom question, that would take hours of research on thousands of teams to answer so I have no idea. But in the last 10 years the national champion has been KenPom #1 five times, #2 once, and #3 three times, and no champion in 2020. So it's not like teams are defying the odds regularly [/QUOTE]