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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 1335909, member: 1969"]
The BE is not really gaming anything.  They went out and earned their conference ranking by winning preseason games against top 100 teams, many of them on neutral or away courts.   Every member team had at least 1 top 100 OOC wins.   I doubt you find that in any conference.  It's overall record vs top 100 schools OOC was 27-18 which is pretty impressive I think -- I would like to see where other conferences stand but no time.

Villanova went 6-0 vs top 100 OOC, 2 top 50 wins (4 neutral or away)
Providence went 5-1 vs top 100 OOC, including a neutral court win vs Notre Dame (only loss to Kentucky)
Georgetwon 2-2 vs top 100 (lost to Wisconsin and Kansas)
Xavier 4-1 vs top 100
Butler 1-3 vs top 100 (but win was a neutral court win over UNC)
St. John's 3-2 vs top 100 (losses to Gonzaga and Duke)
Seton Hall 3-1 vs top 100
Marquette 1-3
Creighton 1-3 (but win over Oklahoma)
Depaul 1-2

While it's not gaming anything, the fact that the Big East has alot of middling tourney legit teams is skewing Villanova's resume.

At the end of the day, based on how #1's have been awarded Villanova has earned it.    As per the title of the thread however, it may not be #1 seed good.    But the committee has decided to be fair that it evaluates resumes for seeding.
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