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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 900099, member: 1969"]
With regards to your bolded fact...  OOC matters.   And 2007 is around the time that the committee started to say it would matter more, and they have continue to hold to that today.    
 
Syracuse got what it deserved.    We should have been in over Stanford.    But Drexel should have been in over both teams.    
 
While our BE record was a solid 11-7,  only 3 of those wins were against tourney teams.    That diminishes the merits of the 11-7 record.  That being said, it would have been enough to get us in with a decent OOC.   Problem is our OOC was  terrible.
 
1) They did not have a quality win OOC, unless you stretch things to include 14 seed Penn. 
2)  They played 3 bubble/NIT level teams in OOC, and lost them all.
Lost at HOME to Wichita St (who missed the tourney)
Lost at HOME to Drexel (who missed the tourney)
Lost at MSG to Oklahoma St (who missed the tourney)
 
That is one massive hole they put themselves in before January.
 
#2 was the biggest factor in Syracuse not deserving an at-large.    We can argue that Syracuse could have been team 64 or 65 instead of 66 or 67, but when a team is in the 64-67 range its not a massive screwjob. 
 
Comparing our 10-6 record to UNC at 9-9 (if it could somehow reach that) in the ACC this year is not really relevant.
1) UNC has 3 huge wins OOC, while we had none.   Those 3 UNC wins in total are going to be way better than the best 3 wins we had for all of 2007.
2) 68 teams - those 3 extra teams make it a little easier.
3) UNC will not make it to 9-9.  Bunch of quitters.
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