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[QUOTE="fieldystick, post: 4257905, member: 8152"]
I think they would need to win the SoCon too. So 15-1 SoCon champion Jacksonville with the only loss being to Hopkins... yeah, you probably could convince me that they'd stack up at 10th +/- in terms of evaluating for seeds. Maybe they even sneak the 8th seed or something if the committee was in a really good mood, who knows.

But to me, anyway, it seems like the people who are all up in arms about Jacksonville getting left out, aren't projecting ahead that they'd have another loss yet to come to Richmond - or before last night and even worse, potentially High Point/VMI - for this to be possible. In its current form, it's already an extremely flimsy case, adding another loss on top of it breaks it entirely.

The hard truth is that there's just too many bad teams/games (that never had any hope of being good or really helpful evaluation-wise) on their schedule:
Mercer
Marquette
Air Force
Bellarmine
UMass-Lowell
St. John's
Virginia Military
Hampton
Mercer, again

Some of those aren't their fault (conference), some of them are (UMass-Lowell? St. John's?).

Richmond scheduled like a team that could play their way into the at-large conversation with some upsets. Jacksonville scheduled like a team who didn't expect to be in this position in May (and that's because I don't think they expected it either).
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