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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 1701905, member: 837"]
Yeah, this is the basic point, right? 13 losses are 13 losses -- you want to make an argument we didn't deserve to be included in the field I still think you can  make it. I'm not even sure wins over Dayton and Middle Tennessee even convince me that the selection was warranted. At the very least I think we probably benefited from the emotional and physical drain the MSU win took out of MTSU.

BUT, you also have to accept a couple of things with the tournament that make it really hard to take anything away from the teams that are around for the second or third weekend:

-- No matter how good you are, teams that win the title generally get a little lucky along the way. This isn't to say that the best team never wins, but that the best team doesn't always win. Luck -- in terms of stylistic matchups, hot shooting nights, draws, etc. -- are part of this whole thing and no one can deny that.

-- Winning games in this tournament is hard to do. You don't beat two teams in the first weekend by 20ish points and unless you play good basketball. It's obviously more impressive if the names on the front of the jerseys are Kentucky and Duke or something like that, but there aren't really bad teams in the tournament. You have to play well to win.

So bottom line -- getting to the sweet 16 is great and whether or not you deserved entry into the field, at this point, is irrelevant.
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