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Message: [QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 4221163, member: 5685"] You all are moving the goalposts. You all keep saying oh SU should have made it then. Or this P5 conference should have had every team. That is moronic and not even close to what I am saying. Reading comprehension is a thing. I will try to make it simple for the dummies. If team A (ACC), team B (P12), and team C (MWC) are all on the bubble they will all have similar resumes. There isn't much to separate the three. So how do you decide? That is where a conference's current and recent history of talented players and coaches should come into play. The P12 bubble school (not all P12 schools) should be taken over the MWC bubble team (not the best MWC team). And the ACC bubble team should be taken over the P12 bubble team. If the P12 8th place team is good enough to come in 5th place in the MWC, that makes it harder for that P12 bubble team to have a stronger record than the MWC team. This happens across the P5. There is a greater chance of slip ups because the bottom teams have more talent than the middle of a mid major conference. The NET ranking and thus the Q1 level Ws (Qs are based on NET so they are crap), cannot take that into account. Is it fair that the P5 gets favored over the mid majors? No, but it also isn't fair to have to play more talented coaches and players every week and get punished for it. If the NCAAT is randomness then why do the same conferences, coaches, teams have success year in and year out while other conferences, coaches, and teams do not? If it is just randomness that the ACC has had half the conference in the Elite 8 the last dozen or so years, then the BBall Gods favor the ACC. And if the Gods favor the ACC why not make the Gods happy and select the ACC team (all things being similar bubble vs bubble)? [/QUOTE]

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