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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 2545722, member: 1131"] A Devil's Advocate question: Supposing that UConn and Mississippi State finish the season undefeated, and Baylor finishes with only the loss to UCLA when neither their coach nor one of their best players was at the game. Given that the SEC and Big12 are, ahem, stronger conferences than the AAC, why should UConn necessarily get the overall #1 seed? None of the top 3 seeds will have played each other, so there is nothing that could be learned from head-to-head competition. But we do know that Baylor beat Texas by a lot more than UConn beat Texas, and played other common opponents (except UCLA) equally well. If you rely on the "eye test", at least this pair of eyes does not see UConn as clearly superior to the other two teams. I don't think it would be unreasonable for the Committee to make UConn the #2 or even #3 overall seed in this scenario. [/QUOTE]