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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 4235133, member: 730"] The way the top 5 teams in the B1G beat each other it's not far off to say there was a virtual 5 way tie for the reg season. I really enjoyed watching a lot of the games but the 5 teams had great games and suckie games and a lot of wins were not because of great play by the winner, rather it was bad play by the loser. Some of the bad losses were with injured players, which NET doesn't factor in. In part, the reason so many B1G teams are ranked where they are is because MD was a pre-season FF selection in many places, like ESPN, so to support MD when they lost they assumed that those other teams "must be great". But what if they are just like the B1G is most years, S16, E8, but no further. Same with MD. When was the last time they were not an ESPN pre-season FF team by one of the crew? And how many FF's have they been in lately? There are a lot of media types that still think in terms of the RPI, where all that matters is wins and losses, and the AP poll is the result. Under NET there are good and bad wins and good and bad losses. In addition to their record teams are graded in how they played each game. A 2 pt road win when favored by 15 is a bad win. NET factors all that in. That's why UConn is 4th, despite not having a bunch of wins against elite teams, they outplayed expectations and NET rewards that. NET is the only metric mentioned in the rules and there is an explanation of how it is different. So all the committee HAS to do to put UConn in Bridgeport as a 1 or a 2 is to point to NET, in which UConn is 4th. Add in that their injured are all available and the only question is whether they WANT to do that. The SC can make a plausible argument for many different brackets. Reading their rules it seems to me that their biggest headache is in picking the last half dozen teams from a list of a dozen and a half. After living through that exercise my guess is that the committee accepts whatever arrangement the chairman offers. [/QUOTE]

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