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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 3438189, member: 1220"] Your post pretty much sums up the entire argument. At this point in time, no team wants to face any of the top three teams. Although it can be reasonably argued that some of the other teams would match up better with those three and would actually do better against them than Uconn would in a repeat. The perspective that promotes the scenario that because Uconn only lost to those three teams, this makes them the fourth-best team in WCBBs seems to be a favorite on the Boneyard . This is a distorted self-interest driven rationale to justify the highest available remaining seed to avoid teams against which they have little chance. Every ranked team has the same desire to avoid difficult early matchups. Every team also has the right to expect to have an equal shot at getting a fair seeding. Any advantage for one usually comes at the expense of another. Sure only those three teams have beaten Uconn. But what other team have they played that even had a chance to beat them? Depaul is the only real top 25 ranked team they have faced. Tenn has shown itself to not belong there. And Depaul's short line up was a tailor-made match up in that they did not have the height to take advantage of Uconn's weakness. Who, other than the "Three" has Uconn even played to justify the fact that they might be the fourth-best team and justified to get the last #1 seed. Other than Depaul, does getting soundly beaten by those three teams while not facing any other top 25 team, give any clue as to where they should be ranked in respect to the other teams? A fair objective assessment says no. The question remains as to what is more important. Not getting loses or not playing teams that can give you losses? Realistically, where Uconn will be seeded will still be influenced positively by the Uconn brand and less by their actual record. Hoping that other top teams with tough remaining schedules get losses that will improve Uconns seeding chances is something that every team's fans would want. Every fan wants their team to have the best chance to advance in the playoffs. Nothing wrong with that. That is unless those fans believe that they are entitled to that higher seeding based on nothing but mental gymnastics. [/QUOTE]

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