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[QUOTE="uconngb, post: 3883408, member: 1708"]
You’re all missing my point so I’ll try it differently.  Being ranked vs not ranked by definition means you are talking about the bottom of the rankings.  My snapshot from the 2019 bracket proves that a teams ranking once you get outside the top 15 or so does not directly correlate to their seeding.  I gave 6 examples where that was true just from that one year.  I think that’s a good size but I’m not doing anymore research.  That said, I guarantee it happened in previous years.

Yes I want us to be good.  Yes I want us to be HIGHLY ranked.  I just don’t get the obsession of what 25th means vs the 3rd “other team receiving votes”.  It clearly doesn’t matter in seeding.  It’s not changing any recruits’ minds in whether to come here.  And it’s based on a bunch of peoples’ opinions who have probably never seen us play this year.

It ain’t hard to rank Gonzaga #1.  But the bottom 10-15 of the poll is always screwed up.  Ohio St has lost 4 games in a row for Gods sake and is STILL in the top 10!!  So I just don’t get the obsession with being ranked as in somehow it changes us.  Winning changes us.  Rankings mean squat.  You get ranked because you win.  So let’s just win.  And all the other crap will take care of itself.
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