Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 4255646, member: 591"] Not really. That may be true, although I'm not looking back at the criteria at this point. All it really says is: [LIST] [*]some teams were probably mis-seeded [*]some teams ran into other teams that were either seeded wrong, were bad match-ups or were just hot at the time - upsets happen [*]conference affiliation is not a predictor of success [/LIST] You can't extrapolate out how other BE teams would have done, nor does losing in the 1st or 2nd round (which happens to 48 of the 64 teams) imply that you didn't belong in the tournament. What you might extract, over all, and with detailed analysis (really, of the whole season) is some feeling for how various conferences fare against specific other conferences. You can't get there on one game, or one team, but for example, for many years the Big Ten's style of play did not predict success against teams from other conferences. With the arrival of Maryland, particularly, as well as coaching changes at most programs, that style has changed. [/QUOTE]