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[QUOTE="tzznandrew, post: 3902579, member: 168"]
I don't know that you can clearly say they aren't the best off of this one game.

Again, you position seems to be:

If a very good (i.e. 1 or 2 seed) gets upset, the league is not very good.
Ohio State (1 or 2 seed) got upset.
Therefore the league is not very good.

But one, I don't think the argument follows at a basic level because of randomness. But second there are examples that disprove it in practice when we take an entirely different argument:

If a league gets two Final Four teams, it's a very good league. (Let's add to the [I]If [/I]part "and one wins the title just for sake of example).
The Big East did that in 2013.
Therefore the 2013 Big East was a very good league.

2013 creates a contradiction. No matter what happens this particular year, one of these two lines of arguments must be false forever. Either a 2-15 loss shows a league is bad OR a number of other team's successes show a good league. I'm going with the latter given the absolute wonderful randomness of the NCAAs.

And, again, this intersects with my annoyance about the conspiracy thinking. Look at KenPom and NET. Are they kowtowing to media pressure?
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