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[QUOTE="suloyalfan, post: 1702653, member: 397"]
Thanks.  I would only add a couple things regarding your points above.

- I just picked Wisconsin as an example of a team that nobody had a problem with that had a similar overall record (20-12) and resume, with a least one equally bad loss and plenty of quality wins.  Wisconsin also had an up and down season but definitely finished on a better stretch.  In comparison to SU, they did have a loss at least as bad as St. John's (they lost to Western Illinois at home).  They also had a bad loss to UW-Milwaukee at home, and lost to Georgetown just like Syracuse did.  SU's worst loss RPI-wise after St. John's was to Georgetown.  Wisconsin had 5 losses to teams worse than Georgetown.

- 13 regular season losses is a lot and I agree on your points here.  I'm not surprised that people questioned it, as I was actually pretty surprised when Syracuse made it into the tournament too.  And making it as a #10 seed means that they weren't even the last at-large selection to make it.  I thought that the St. John's loss and losing 3 times to Pitt (one of which caused an early exit from the ACC tourney) would do them in.  As you pointed out, they also had an opportunity against Clemson for another win.  They also played close games down the stretch with North Carolina and Florida State.  I think if they had won at least 2 of these handful of games there would have been very little argument about them making the tournament.
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