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Message: [QUOTE="mantonio, post: 567077, member: 709"] First of all, they SAY they don't look at rankings, but that is difficult to believe. Secondly, that aside, the committee does look at factors that ultimately decide the rankings, like strength of schedule & W/L record. Thirdly, looking SPECIFICALLY at the Syracuse situation, they have lost recently to highly ranked teams, which would not reflect poorly on their standing with the tourney committee. So, if you look at their ranking at this time, I find it very difficult to believe the committee would seed them at odds with their present rank. How many sub 25 ranked teams did CUSE lose to this season? 'Nova? Temple? UCONN? None of those are bad losses either. This 8/9 seed talk does not fit the resume of this team. Not even CLOSE !!! I bet those teams you mentioned with the lower seed than ranking probably lost games to lower ranked teams, & the committee will seed them based on that situation. [/QUOTE]