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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4206172, member: 1969"]
Virginia Tech only getting an 11 seed is nowhere near an atrocity.   It was more then reasonable.  I had them as a 10/11 seed.

100 people on the Bracket Matrix had the at an avg seed of 10.5, which placed them as #41 on the matrix -- the best 11 seed.

The ACC was not really anything close to a traditional P5 conference this year.   There was 4 elite conferences -- SEC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12 -- that were clearly above the rest.  The ACC's conference metrics before January were about the same as the P12, WCC and the MWC.   How a conference does before conference play matters A LOT.   It shapes how your conference will do come Selection Sunday.   It limits, or opens the door, for middle of the pack teams in those conferences.

Those were the peers of the ACC this year (P12, MWC, WCC) - not those top 4 conferences.  And we got treated in a similar manner to them.

Based on that it is quite reasonable that the tournament champ gets an 11 seed.   Virginia Tech had 1 Q1 win before the conference tournament, and while its run of 4 ACC victories were impressive, they only beat one elite team in those games.  The tournament games are simply treated as "1 additional game", like a game played in November.   They are given no extra relevance for when they are played.

I was surprised Texas A&M did not get in.   But at the same time I was surprised they got in over a 15-5 ACC team -- which sort of explains why I am fine VTech received an 11 seed.
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