But how much of that was us, Marquette, and Creighton? I think that’s the issue. The mid-range teams were largely disappointing in OOC. Butler and Nova probably had the best OOC of the group and then both crapped their pants in league play.
Are you looking at all the other teams? FAU got their butts kicked by Bryant and they play in an absolute dog s^^^ conference. Nevada played nobody out of conference. Virginia beat Florida and A&M and got absolutely demolished by Memphis and Wisconsin. The ACC is incredibly weak.
I hate to break it to you but outside the NEWBIE bubble, the Big East is viewed as a “high mid-major.” Closer to the MWC than the ACC or Big 10 or 12. You can through all the metrics around that you want. Doesn’t matter. It is perception. This selection just further confirms that view outside the bubble. UConn is viewed in the same way Gonzaga is. Power program in a lesser conference. If UConn were to leave the NEWBIE it would absolutely be viewed as the mid-major.
DePaul.
I’m not disagreeing with you. FAU is clearly in based on the fact that they went to the F4 last year. If they don’t do that, not a chance they’re in the field this year. There are other head-scratchers, I’m just saying why the committee undervalued the mid-tier teams beating up on each other. They need to take care of business OOC so that our league isn’t viewed as completely top-heavy.
Your posts are somehow getting even worse by the day.
You all realize that the representative from any conference has to leave the room when we discuss that conference’s team, right?
adding the two worst pac brands to the MW and calling it the pac is the definition of polishing a turd. the new pac will be a power conference like the aac was a power conference
You know what else though? Maybe it shouldn’t, but history and reputation matter. They just do. If selection were only metrics, like say Hockey, it would be different. But when a traditional power is on the bubble, it gets the benefit of the doubt. Michigan State and Virginia are going to get it. UConn likely will at some point in the future. For years crappy Indiana teams got in because they were Indiana. Georgetown got them in the 90s. There are going to be a couple of “legacy bids” every year. There always are. Usually they are less obvious but with the advent of all the metric nonsense plus the high number of upsets for league tournaments this year, they aren’t as well hidden.
Fanboy speaks. Are you a UConn fan or just a NEWBIE fanboy? Why do you even care whether St John’s or Seton Hall, 2 mediocre teams, got in?
Didn’t FAU beat Arizona in Arizona?
If 3 BigEast teams made the FF they would absolutely revisit this. Not in a specific team way, but as a story about the league and how they only got 3 teams and all 3 are here.
That was maybe the best nonconference win any team had all year. They also had some terrible losses. They're a total toss-up.
Yes. Great win. But seton hall beat UConn and Marquette. There’s no doubt in my mind FAU would be outside the field if not for last year. They lost 4 games last year and were a 9 seed. Lost double the number this year and is an 8 seed. Laughable.
Their issue was the really bad losses they had.
Nope they didnt.
But even Butler and Villanova had duds. Nova's losses were horrific. Butler's OOC had one solid win: Boise State. But they hurt their own metrics by needing 2OT to beat ACC power-house California, and lost to both Michigan State and Florida Atlantic. Michigan State beat them by 20.
If you have no fear and claim UConn got screwed wouldn't it mean that Iowa State, Illinois and Auburn got screwed more by getting us?
Nearly every team in the country who played us would have bad loses.
The university president's will continue to care because bread ($$$$) was stolen from their mouths
I get it, things don’t always play out as on paper, but the committee’s responsibility / job is to make it fair on paper. They had an epic failure that’s inexcusable. The process either lacked basic integrity, was grossly incompetent, or plain lazy. None of those is acceptable and it may be a combination. Heads need to roll.
Remember, last year we were screwed by the committee, too! Underseeded, and then Iona-St. Mary's-Kansas-UCLA was a totally unfair run to have to get to the Final Four.
It's fine to think both that there were poor decisions made by the committee and that it doesn't matter all that much. You can't win a title without beating tough teams.
The conference gets paid for the number of teams they get in and the further they go the more money it makes. It's economics.
It's totally okay to be mad.