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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 5380524, member: 405"] I would disagree with your certitude about it. How a team is playing at the time of the invitation is deserving of consideration. Whether it should be "a category" is another discussion. The thinking was, "by relying on last 10 games records, we devalue the early season." On the other hand, I think these pre-conference games have been given too much importance in ranking entire conferences, when teams are just getting to know each other in the first month of the season. Combined with the margin of victory metrics that are used in the current system, this leads to blowouts vs. Podunk U. as being determinative of which conference is better, and who gets more seeds in March. As a result, people should focus on blowing weaker opposition out of the water and running up the score on Q4 opponents since it matters so much to tournament selection now. And that is clearly messed up. [/QUOTE]