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[QUOTE="Waltdods, post: 943024, member: 2932"]
(I'm not sure what the point about convincing anyone how good we are is directed at - I agree that that's silly.)

Here's the operative WSU paragraph from Pomeroy:

[I]I don’t bring this up to make the case that Wichita State’s schedule has been tougher than Syracuse’s. It hasn’t. But I think if you asked most basketball people, certainly talking heads on TV or people with a poll votes, you’d get something close to unanimity that winning at home against Duke is better than winning at Saint Louis, and again, that’s wrong, and wrong by a lot.[/I]

First, he says - explicitly - that WSU's schedule hasn't been tougher than SU's.  I assume everyone agrees with that.  Then he says that beating Duke at home is easier than beating SLU away.  I take it many disagree with that.  I'm not so sure myself.  But the basis of his opinion is no secret.  And it has nothing to do with animosity towards Syracuse or, per the OP, "arrogance."  (Do you even disagree?  My sense has been that folks who follow college basketball the closest are the ones with the strongest appreciation for the importance of home court advantage.)
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