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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 206130, member: 1969"] Beyond any recent changes, to me the big difference between the two resumes is that Kentucky beat North Carolina and Kansas. Syracuse has not beaten any top 2 seed teams. Could Syracuse do it? Sure - but advantage should go to the team that actually does it. Both teams have great records against top 50 and top 100 schools, and on the road/neutral against such teams. But should the number one overall seed (bwtween two one loss teams) be determined based on one team having one or two more top 50/100 wins -- after all those teams should be exoected to win all those games against teams outside the four line (each has slipped once). To me elite wins, at the top two seed lines and then the top 4 seed lines (assuming the 50/100 records are similar), should be the seperator. I think the only SU opponent that has a chance at the top 2 seed line is Georgetown and Marquette and that is only if they win the BET -- which of course means that SU loses again, which would hurt their case for one overall. If Kentucky wins out, they will get the one seed overall, and I think they absolutely deserve it over Syracuse. Not because they are any better, but because of the elite wins. The interpretation of the body of work should not be the exact same for identifying and separating one seeds as it is for identifying and separating bubble teams. Nor should it be. Beating UCF or Seton Hall or Miss St is quite meaningful for determining which bubble team gets in - beating UCF or Seton Hall or Miss St should add little or novalue to a team fighting for the number one overall seed. I am not biased - I have observed what the committee has done for a while, and I am not going to fit the data to make a case for Syracuse if it doesn't merit it, Its also amusing how the same people that want to use objective criteria such as overall RPI (which in itself never dictates the S-Curve) and a few more top 50 losses, will ignore objective criteria in stating that the Big East is way better then the SEC. The Big East RPI is .5699, the SEC's is .5679. Very little difference. Perhaps you didn't notice that USF, Cincy, and Notre Dame who all had success in conference stank it up OOC. So basically: 1) SU is better then UK, based on objective criteria. Ignore any subjective analysis. 2) Big East is way better then the SEC based on subjective analysis. Ignore the objective criteria, Sorry for the rant, but homer bias andinsecurity annoys me. [/QUOTE]

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