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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4466693, member: 1969"]
Not really agreeing with your conclusion.   The impacts of flawed early season polls do not impact tournament selection, at least in my view.   Even if a first poll was more accurate at January 1, that January 1 poll would still be pretty much irrelevant to the selection process as well when tourney selection comes around.

While I agree that early season polls take some time to flush out / bring in some teams those will be corrected by the end of the year after a 30+ game sample - with the exception of name brand biases which will exist whenever you do your first poll in November or January.

What is of primary importance to a conference at January 1, is how it has performed as a whole because that drives the whole tourney selection process after that.

If the poll on January 1 overrates a conference vs. how it has actually done to that point, the metrics that matter (which are driven by OOC play by your conference, and not # of teams in top 25) will sniff it all out because of how sensitive the actual metrics (top 50 wins for example) are to conference OOC play.
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