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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 2507177, member: 1969"]
Why should Palm care?

I know you don't like when I say this, but you calling out Palm is a classic case of you shooting the messenger.  Palm's role is to assess whether a team is a tourney team based on the current system.   It is not to assess whether the system that locks Loyola out is bad.

I will also say Loyala has limited chance of getting in.   Should the system be fairer to them?  In my view yes, those teams deserve the benefit of the doubt, but they never get it.   That is a different question however.   These teams are apples and oranges with P5 teams in terms of data comparison, so I have no problem using subjective analysis or straight power rankings for smaller schools... or giving them the benefit of the doubt.

Teams like Buffalo have no chance of an at large.  Each year there are around 3 mid level progams that have RPI's in the 30's  or early 40's and they get ignored.   The commitee is smart enough to realize the RPI doesn't work for some teams,  or individually it has little meaning if a team gets in or not, but yet still uses it for their numberical framework to create all the other data.
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