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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4589075, member: 12088"] Did you even read my post? Didn't I just say this? The SEC got their act together as the season progressed, however, this also meant that as their W-L records improved, so did the SoS of stronger teams [like SC] who played them when they weren't playing very well yet. But this is besides the point for two reasons: 1) we were talking about OOC, not SEC, and 2) SoS ratings are dynamic, not stable, mono-valent facts. [B]The fact is, SC's OOC schedule was weak at the time they played it, and many of their SEC matchups were also quite weak early in the season. Trying to read their current SoS rating back into it retroactively doesn't change this basic fact.[/B] The positive side to this is you can use it to explain away the close calls against Stanford and UCLA, namely by saying they hadn't really been tested by top teams when they played those two. Of course, this won't help explain away the close call against UConn later. For that one, you may have to rely on home court advantage and the notion that UConn was really better without Azzi, etc. Or maybe the basketball used was the wrong brand. I guess MD was better without Miller, too. :D But the important thing to remember is that [B]SC is still the prohibitive favorite to win the NC[/B]. Just don't make me pretend this means they're also flawless. [/QUOTE]