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Message: [QUOTE="VAHuskyFan, post: 4216754, member: 1585"] Providence fans want you to believe those wins were, in fact, wins. That is a sound position. We are not trying to seed alternate-universe Providence with a .500 record. Deprioritizing single-game outcomes is a bad idea. The final minutes of a close regular season game are exciting based on the premise that the outcome matters. If the NCAA decides that the outcome doesn’t matter - that a 1-point loss is really the same thing as a 1-point win - then those final minutes are meaningless. The regular season just becomes one long, continuous scoring exhibition for each team. However efficient the computers may find that, it’s boring as heck. There is a good reason every major sports league seeds teams by wins rather than “season-long scoring differential.” [/QUOTE]