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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 886714, member: 1969"]
If Wichita St is undefeated, its getting a #1 seed.    Even if their resume is limited, they have the cred of a final 4 team and the allure of being the first undefeated team entering the tourney in over 20 years.    That will be enough for the old "eye test" which the committee uses from time to time to veer off its standards.

That being said, the people that are comparing Wichita St to Gonzaga are using poor logic.     They do not have similar resumes at all and are not comparable.     If Wichita St loses one game, taking away the allure of an undefeated season, it will not be a #1.

I know Gonzaga had many haters here last year who thought they played nobody, which was inaccurate.    They beat a 3 seed, a 4 seed on the road, beat legit tourney teams on the road in St. Mary's and BYU, and won 3 other games against those two.   Did major conference schools have more - yes, but more opportunity as well.     Wichita St cannot build anything anywhere close to that win profile - no such OOC win and it can't get a road win against a conference team.

Furthermore, if Wichita St loses it will automatically be a worse loss than Gonzaga had  last year.

So the teams are not in the same situation.   If Wichita St goes 33-0, it gets a #1 seed for being undefeated, but if they go 32-1 or 31-2 they would not get a #1 either.
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