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[QUOTE="fieldystick, post: 3856805, member: 8152"]
If you saw my final bracket and the analysis that went with it, I had this comparison for the one as for the last spot (and I obviously also agree this was the actual debate). And I can answer why pretty confidently here:  it's because the committee valued the Georgetown win much more highly than they did the Syracuse win - while I think they were about equal in value. These were my ramblings from Sunday morning on the last spot. [ATTACH type="full" alt="E08mU8cXEAUZXD5.png"]200940[/ATTACH]

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This is probably my last post in the thread/on the forum for the year because it ultimately doesn't matter anymore and not worth getting worked up. After a night of sleeping on it, I have one question that I would lob at the committee (and I have a feeling that they'd squirm over it).

Note before we begin: Margin of victory/defeat is not supposed to matter/be a criterion for the committee to consider. Full stop.

So my parting question is this: Had Syracuse lost by a close margin in the final ACC game against Notre Dame instead of getting embarrassed, how would Syracuse be seeded/evaluated? Syracuse would have ended the season on this run: beating #4 seed Virginia, a close loss to #5/#6 Notre Dame, and a win over RoMo. I'd bet money that Syracuse is either a seed or maybe the first team unseeded ("9th") had this happened.

So the committee dropped Syracuse from 7th - "9th" kind of range to ~12th because of [I]how[/I] they lost in a single game (not that SU lost, mind you). That is [B][I]completely[/I][/B] nonsensical.
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