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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 3920945, member: 199"] I don't really consider one seed line losses by the higher seed team to be worthy of 'upset' label - 4/5, 2/3, and 1/2 matches generally are pretty evenly matched and with an 's' curve a quarter of them are teams ranked next to each other. Add in that the seeding includes one line adjustments to keep conference teams apart in these rounds and it might actually be the committee thought the 5 was better than the 4, etc. Also - teams like ARK really messed with perceptions for the committee and for analytics - they beat Uconn and Baylor OOC so one of those important cross conference data points that were scarce was very misleading - downgrading the Big12 and hyping the SEC. Maryland continued that issue by losing to Missouri State - when you get so few OOC data points and half of them are in our current opinion 'wrong' you have a big problem! [/QUOTE]