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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 1346936, member: 1969"]
ACC won the weekend.   With 5 top 4 seed's you are expected 3 to 4 teams to make the sweet 16, but 5 clearly exceeds expectations.   A+

I really wonder if there was enough 3/4 quality seeds in this tourney.    One can argue Wichita St and Northern Iowa did not get enough credit and could have been 3/4.     You just could not put Michigan St on those lines -- they did not deserve it.   Utah could have been another that could be moved uo.

As I mentioned before I don't think the tournament indicates that the Big 12 was not a 6 team league, or perhaps even the 7 it got.    It just indicates the flaw that when you have many legit but not great teams, the resumes of a few those tounrey legit  teams will often became mistakenly very good or great.

It happened with 2 conferences this year... but if you look at something unbiased like KenPom it will also support these team games.

But it also shows you how important November and December really are -- they dictate everything whether its RPI, KP, Jeff Sag.. because at that point the level of play of your league will not change.   And they key sample of games for each conference (top 100) is maybe 50 games per conference.. so a conference gets 2, 3, or 4 more favourable results it changes everything.
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