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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 2112820, member: 1969"]
1.   I don't think it's fair to fully say our competition got layup wins and we lost to Miami.

We had 6 close competitors entering tourney week.   3 of the 6 pulled off wins that were harder than our Miami game.

Xavier beat Butler
Vanderbilt beat Florida
Kansas St beat Baylor

The other 3 had wins that don't really make a difference.  Layup wins make no difference - you are correct in that.

USC over some schmuck P12 team that only BPO would think was good.
Wake over BC
Rhode Island over 2 middling A-10 teams.

So at least 3 of 6 closest teams did better than us.    If we focus on conference tourney play it did hurt us, because some of our competitors got marquee wins on neutral floors.   But how much did it hurt us?   Which leads to my next, more importnat point.

2.  This is a 32-35 game season.   Everything gets assessed.   We tend to overvalue the conference tourney and assume the committee has them all tied entering tourney week, so that every game is pushing teams up or down when something big happens.  It's natural human reaction to the "now".   And the committee does not usually have this in the now approach.    It's possible the one game for Kansas St/Baylor made the difference, but it's also possible it had no impact.   We don't know where the rankings and gaps were before this week.

It's still a full season game by game evaluation.
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