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Message: [QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 3077862, member: 1673"] You do not see me challenging anyone else's opinion on this. I have less respect for those who simply regurgitate Massey, for what are they adding, yet I understand they should be the most frequent responses. Nor do I pay much attention to something that is simply opinion without any experiential evidence whatsoever, but those opinions have their value, as does the "wisdom of crowds," which is precisely what VG is doing in his tabulation. The wisdom of crowds only works if people contribute their own unique angle, rather than group think (or Massey think as the case may be). I contributed mine, rooted in the experience of performing in Regionals and how reliably teams are performing under pressure this year. Your last retort is nonsensical as a challenge to the perspective of performing up to expectations in the Regionals first. It's been a long, long time since UConn failed to make it through the Regionals when they were the superior team. MS does not have a long track record, but they've been making it through the Regionals in a way that exceeded expectations, not failed to live up to them. It's been fairly recent that Notre Dame and Baylor failed to live up to expectations and they still have the same coaches. Baylor I think is solid and will be in the Final Four and stands a greater chance than Notre Dame, even though I don't think their A game is as good, because I see nothing this year that signals they might fail again. I have seen that with Notre Dame. If you take exception to that experiential based opinion that's fine. That is the point of polls like this and the "wisdom of crowds." I know some people are put off with that concept, perhaps because it was coined by an economic journalist? But the whole Scientific Revolution and the changing of the university system is based on that very phenomenon. You have your own perspective, it may be prove to be more or less correct, only the future will tell. The fact that it should bother you so much that you keep challenging me in this kind of opinion poll, ignoring my points about making it through the Regionals based on valid experiences with irrelevant counters about past championships, reveals you don't understand how the wisdom of crowds is supposed to work (and also likely you don't understand my point), but rather you are too invested and dogmatic about your own. But cheer up! The wisdom of the Boneyard crowd has you ahead of both Mississippi State and UConn. I respect the wisdom of crowds, but will add that if Notre Dame fails to make the Final Four, while UConn, Baylor and Mississippi State gets in, I'm going to look like a genius! [/QUOTE]

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