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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 3308326, member: 1969"]
A new team on the watch is UCLA.  Their resume is all over the place.   Somewhat similar to Providence.   They are benefiting from a deeper conference but played like poop in the OOC.

They were on 17% of the brackets submitted today.   What stands out for them is their NET of 76, which is by far the worse of a team on the bubble.  But we know about getting in with an RPI in the 70's.

UCLA really accomplished nothing OOC.
- They loss 6 games OOC, with the biggest win being NET 112 UNLV.
- They lost at home to NET 267 Cal St Fullerton who is 8-18.   That actually surpasses Providence's loss to NET 288 Long Beach St on a neutral court as perhaps the worst loss by a tourney team the pass 5 years (if they get in)

But they have managed to go 11-5 in the metric friendly P-12 this year.
5 Q1 Wins -- beating Colorado twice and Arizona once is the core.  But where the confernence depth helps them is that Washington and Oregon St are considered Q1 road games.

To me it's not overly impressive, but it just shows how much better the Pac-12 is than the ACC in metrics this year.  )I could provide a link to those who mocked my assertion at the end of December... This stuff is all very clear at the end of December... it's no mystery at that point which conferences will have its middle of the pack teams benefit and which ones will not)
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