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Message: [QUOTE="domerduck, post: 3469773, member: 10178"] I'll answer your question as my opinion is based on national rankings as I respect the coaches who play the teams they rank and the media who watch the games they rank over some RPI/Massey ratings which usually overrates Big 10 teams and get them seeded too high as they usually underperform in the actual NCAA tournament when they play better teams with worse "RPI" ratings. When I checked before I made that post (my little research), tOSU was not currently ranked in either poll nor received any votes in either poll which meant 1 or more voters thought 42 teams were better than tOSU. Finally as you cherrypick (Plebe's word) a few of their wins, don't forget some of their 11 losses were: 2 OOC losses at home including to MAC team, Ohio (18-11), 3 Big 10 losses at home including to Purdue (18-14), and a pretty bad loss at MSU (16-14) as well as to an unranked Rutgers in Piscataway, but at least Rutgers got a few votes in the last poll. So that is why I think tOSU is lousy, but if they can beat a much better Maryland team in the Big 10 championship. I will grant that they have improved from thecteam with 11 losses. Win or lose my guess they might even get a vote or two in this week's polls. One other point as it relates to the best team in the Big 10, I personally have a wait and see approach as to their worthiness as a 1 seed considering how Maryland the last 4 years have been disappontment in the NCAA tourney, primarily losing to worse seeded PAC12 teams,. 7th Seed UW in 2016, 10th seeded Oregon in 2017, and 6th seeded UCLA last year obviously had inferior RPI numbers, but just were better teams than Maryland on the court and won those games. [/QUOTE]

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