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[QUOTE="hhdscuse, post: 2523174, member: 6040"]
First time I've ever felt we don't deserve to be in, but I'm seeing a lot of teams in Lunardi's latest that are "LESS" deserving.  While we don't pass the eye test in my opinion, on paper, we should be given more consideration than what we are given.

Louisville---No Top 25 Wins
Middle Tennessee St.---No Top 50 Wins (And lost to RPI #225 or so this week)
USC---No Top 25 Wins
Saint Mary's---No Top 25 Wins (Strength of Schedule #217)

These are all current at large teams IN the bracket.  Dumb.  Syracuse has 2 Top 25 Wins, including a Top 25 Road win, and a SOS 13th in the country.  We have been left out previously for "too many cupcakes" (SOS 13), "not enough road wins" (two top 50 road wins this year) or "bad losses (no quadrant 4 L's).  We seem to have remedied the problems, yet find ourselves right back on the bubble.  St. Bonaventure and ND games will be the reason we stay home, but it's not as clear to me as some may think.

We look terribly similar to Providence on paper, with the exception that they have two great top 10 wins, offset by losses at home to Minnesota and DePaul, and a road loss to UMass.  Our worst two losses are road ACC games against teams with higher RPI's than any of the 3 Providence losses.
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