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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 2055677, member: 6927"] You think there are 16 teams in the country more deserving of a top-16 seed than any of the Pac-12 teams? Whenever these comments come up, I feel obligated to remind people that the exact same arguments were constantly heard last year in the lead-up to tournament time: how the Pac-12 was overrated, how the Pac-12 didn't pass the eye test, how the Pac-12 hadn't beaten anyone good in the nonconference, etc. etc. So I suppose it was just lucky matchups that explain how Stanford beat Notre Dame, Oregon State beat Baylor in Dallas, and Washington beat Maryland at Maryland and then Kentucky at Kentucky. If you were to put the microscope on most teams' resumes, you would see similar deficiencies. Until FSU's recent two losses, no one was questioning that they were deserving of a high seed. But their best OOC win was also over Michigan. Louisville had an OOC win over Kentucky, but then again so did Arizona State and Colorado. So I'm not sure where you're gonna find 16 teams with better OOC bona fides than the top 4 of the Pac-12. [/QUOTE]