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Message: [QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 3076651, member: 1673"] Notice you called the Texas game a blowout. A blowout is not a battle. I realize IS gave Baylor tougher games than Texas. Maybe they were legitimate battles, I don't follow B12 basketball enough to know. "But, but, but, the Massey ratings of IS is higher than SC, higher for Texas than Texas A&M." Still close enough so that if one provides a battle and the other doesn't, than that means the team fighting battles is, by definition, more battle tested, more often in a position of things getting tight and being conditioned how to respond instead of perhaps falling apart with the added pressure of an NCAA tournament, something that has happened to Baylor in the past. I understand that a team can be so good that being battle tested is not a possibility, even in the NCAAs. I've seen a few teams like that; I do not consider Baylor to be one of them. In any case, me giving MS the edge is insignificant. The top four I think are likely to make the Final Four means, once again by definition, I think those teams will make the Final Four. That includes Baylor, and if Baylor makes it they obviously should be seeded first overall. As an added note, I do think Massey is a very good indicator, but it's not infallible. I really don't think Texas should be as high as it is rated by Massey. [/QUOTE]