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[QUOTE="newmexicuse, post: 2525798, member: 57"]
The tournament is intended to embrace a certain universe of teams. Teams that are the regular season or post-season champions from smaller conferences do deserve to be in as part of that universe. They have earned the opportunity to play against teams from larger conferences who in some cases will not schedule them. The mid-pack teams from major conferences do not especially deserve to be in, it just so happens that some of them will end up in to fill out the field.

We had our opportunity to play our way in and we did not get it done. In an "absolute" sense we do not deserve a bid. In a "relative" sense we are just another team amongst the many fringe teams that really haven't earned a bid and are just field fillers. As a Cuse fan, naturally it would be nice to get in, as a basketball fan I would have no complaint either way.

I am sorry, big conference, tough schedule, all irrelevant if you can't win more than 50% of your conference games. If that minimal standard is too tough for our program, maybe we should go back to being an ECAC titan.
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