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Message: [QUOTE="sun, post: 4232998, member: 11664"] I think that folks have taken the committee's consideration for injuries out of context. I previously posted a Q&A reference where a committee member was asked if injuries are considered. And IIRC it had to do with an injury at Colorado. His answer was with respect to injured players being available for the tournament. He did not mention that they would cancel or predict who would have won regular season games due to injuries at all. He said to the effect that if there were a tie among teams that were on the bubble, that the committee could look at injuries to players that wouldn't be available for the tournament. He said that generally they wouldn't want to discriminate against a team with a good record that now has a major injury to a star player. But that it could be a consideration because player availability due to injury is a factor that the committee could consider. This is only my recollection from a single answer or two that he stated in response to a specific question about if player injuries were considered by the committee. But since then, posters here have greatly tried to expand the committee member's answer to include all loses during the season due to injuries for each and every team. That wasn't the context of what I posted at all. Perhaps folks are reading rules that I don't know about. Maybe there's a catch all criterion that allows the committee to do whatever they want. But I doubt that's the reality when the injury criterion is put into practice. I think that the criterion is limited to injured player availability during the tournament only. And I'm pretty sure that he said it could affect seeding, but generally not selection. [/QUOTE]

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