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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 2096201, member: 1969"] Non-Conference SOS. There are five primary factors to separate the bubble as per NCAA guidelines, in order of importance (but note they are all primary). This has been shown on a few broadcasts recently. [U]I would like to find the source online[/U]. Quality of Wins - :cool::cool::cool: Performance away from Home - :(:( Non-Conference SOS - :( Individual Team Rankings - (not only RPI) Head to Head against other bubble teams :cool: You will note that all of the above measure your performance in some manner and how you did except for one -- Non Conference SOS. By itself that number means nothing in terms of measuring a team's performance. A good number means tells us nothing about whether the team is good or not. So why is it emphasized? The committee has said before that it has omitted teams or rewarded teams that were on the bubble for setting themselves up with challenging schedules, or alternatively not setting themselves up with one. [B]The Non-Conference SOS is not a measure of how you played. It's a frog sticker or a stick. Something that can be arbitrarily used to punish or reward a team without having to determine who is the better team[/B]. A school like Rhode Island or Wake -- you played well enough to at least get on the bubble and you did what we asked. Here is your GET OUT OF JAIL pass. Team X is also on the bubble, but played 8 religious and directional schools - GO TO JAIL. While our ranking is not very good it is not absolutely terrible either. So I only gave it one sad face when we compare it to others. And even if the number is low, we have tried to make it better in recent years with several home and away's with former Big East Teams. It was more a case of bad luck this year. So i don't think we get whacked because of this factor because we tried. Sometimes for a team to get the froggy sticker there has to be a partner that deserves to be whacked (which should not be us). So let's hope that is not the case. But if you see Wake Forest or Rhode Island make it on Selection Sunday you will know what likely put them over the top. [/QUOTE]

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