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Message: [QUOTE="sufandu, post: 2955497, member: 874"] I'm grouping regular season and conference tournament success together. Not sure how you missed that. The point was when we were having regular season/conference tournament success our perception was higher and national media coverage better than when we've had a subpar regular season followed by an unlikely tournament run. Virginia is another example of my point. Which had a stronger influence on their perception, last year's regular season or their loss in the tournament? They were still considered an elite team coming into this year and will be a 1 seed after another great season. Of course the teams that excel at all of them get the most recognition. Duke is the best definition of that. If you only care about the NCAA tournament that's fine. It's your choice. To suggest that it's the only thing that subjectively or objectively matters in the grand scheme of the sport (if that's what you're doing) is false. [/QUOTE]