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Message: [QUOTE="Ricker, post: 3880243, member: 1245"] I know I've been a broken record on this point, but if the Big 10 is being seeded high, why shouldn't we? As a league, the 14 teams all together don't have a single out of conference win as good as our USC win. The best win by the whole conference is vs projected 8 seed Louisville. [B]Their big wins are only against each other and the prestige of those wins is assigned by the 'eyetest' rather than on court proven accomplishment[/B]. As I've itemized in other threads, the big 10 is only 14-14 vs other major conferences. The Big 10 is 0-8 vs other top teams projected in the field. There is no huge reason why we should have only earned only an 8 seed. Marquette beats Wisconsin and we beat Marquette twice, Marquette kills NCar, and has a win vs Creighton, yet when a Big 10 team beats Wisc they are credited with a big win. We beat Marquette twice and meh. Xavier's win vs Oklahoma is better than any Big 10 win, but our win vs Xavier is played down. Nova's win vs Texas is a third win better than any Big 10 out of conference win. St Johns beats Nova, meh. We've played and beaten teams that are as good as the Big 10. There is nothing more special this year about victories against, Maryland, Mich St, Minn, Indiana, Penn St, Nebraska, Northwestern, Wisc, or Rutgers, than our Big East conference wins. Mich was my personal preseason #1, and Iowa, Illinois, Purdue, Ohio St, are probably good. Even so, 3rd place in the Big East regular season, and with a stronger out of conference win than any of these teams, should rate better than an 8 seed going into the Big East tournament. Edit: Using Palm this morning, Louisville has dropped to a 9 seed as the best out of conference Big 10 win. UCLA as an 11 seed is the conferences second best out of conference win, league wide. [/QUOTE]

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