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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3897765, member: 6927"] I never said it's "so high in all of the P5 conferences." Anyone who's seen my posting history knows I don't hold back in criticizing the irrational idolatry of the "poser 5" as I have started calling them. But I'm not in favor of some arbitrary threshold of a .500 record in conference play. The Big 12 did not have a good year at all, really, and notice that the team with the worst conference record to get an at-large bid this year was 11-7. I'm not as down on the Big Ten as some folks, however, and I don't see many people arguing that any of their at-large teams should've been left home -- including Michigan State, which was really the only remotely close call. You can believe what you want but there's really no evidence to support your claim. South Florida just barely beat Mississippi State at home and got creamed at Houston. Both of those teams missed the tournament. Marquette also lost on its home court to Milwaukee, another non-tournament team. The seeds for both USF and Marquette are pretty darn reasonable considering both of their best wins came over bubble teams. [/QUOTE]