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[QUOTE="Cheriehoop, post: 4219290, member: 127"]
Or the ranking of conferences is skewed. How does the Big 10 get 9 conference teams into the tournament yet just 3 teams winning 2 in a row making it into the sweet 16 with all 9 out by the elite 8? That sure doesn’t seen random. They made up over 13% to 14% of the entire field.

Perhaps playing just 10 or so total out of conference games all at the very beginning of the season coupled with the huge changes in team composition from the transfer portal and allowance for an additional year for seniors, played into what may appears to be unexpected results in March, April. Those early 10 games at the very beginning of the season are the only comparative conference stats available to make seeding and NCAA assumptions 3 months later. There’s definitely always some ‘luck’ involved regarding matchups, injuries, ’hot’ or ‘cold’ shooting etc that always makes the NCAA’s so interesting, somewhat unpredictable but the additional new factors and changes may make conference rankings much more difficult.
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