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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 3087261, member: 1220"] Lots of teams get screwed every year. Being placed #2 close to home is not a real screwing except for prestige purposes. Most other years most fans of other teams complained that Uconn always got the easiest path to the final four. Much like Baylor did this year. I think some Uconn fans just got used to that and this is the first year that they were not given that easy road so they feel they got screwed. Frankly I think the selection process could be improved. To begin with the people they pick more than likely do not have much knowledge in respect to WCBB. That is why they are still using the RPI as a criteria. They sort of have too because I believe most come into their meeting with very little real knowledge of what has happened in WCBB this season. There are probably more fans on the Boneyard who are more capable of picking the brackets because they follow WCBB throughout the year and do not have to rely on the RPI to fill in their lack of knowledge. The very fact that they felt it was necessary to include UCF just because of their #15 RPI ranking speaks to their ignorance. UCF played Uconn 3 times. Play a top 5 team once and it boosts your RPI even if you get destroyed. Relying on the RPI metric is just plain lazy, but I suppose the people on the committee don't feel that they need to put in too much effort into making sure they get it right. Certainly it is difficult to put together a bracket. But using a flawed metric does not make it easier. All metrics are flawed to some degree, but why use an obviously flawed one. There are better metrics available. [/QUOTE]

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