The whole reason for the committees is bias. They want a finger on the scales.
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They have a tough road as well FF team in round of 32 and possibly Auburn in sweet 16.
Obviously selfishly I want us to go far but for these guys and the memory of how great this team has been I want them to get to at least a sweet 16. I don't want them to be remembered as a team that blew a top seed because that will always be the discussion if they lose in the first 2 rounds.
It really makes little sense in the age of conference realignment to pretend conferences don't control the strength of their conference schedule just as much as non conf. Some have more power than others but conferences control the in conference schedules on a whim just as much as teams control their non conference.
Big 12: We have the best conference and toughest schedules because Big Ten and SEC passed on elite top ten basketball programs like Arizona, Kansas, Baylor and Houston while we added several elite basketball programs. We actively made our conference schedules better and created the first/only POWER ONE conference.
Big East: They added UConn, they added Creighton, they've been trying to make their basketball conference tougher for decades, if it's Power 2 Big East is the 2.
SEC: They've chosen to be a so so average basketball conference. They could have added Arizona, KU, Baylor and Houston within or near their geographic footprint and immediately they are #1 or close to Big 12 for #1. They didn't. They chose so so A&M, Texas, and OU. Next time they expand they'll again ignore basketball for football.
Big Ten: They could've added KU, ISU, UConn, Arizona, etc... instead they chose to add Nebraska, USC, Washington, Penn State over the years. UCLA is a sleeping giant but they suck the past few decades compared to the programs they've clearly passed on.
Gonzaga: They could have joined the MWC decades ago and actually played a good conference schedule. Instead they choose a joke conference schedule.
ACC: They consistently passed on #1 basketball program of the past quarter century UCONN. They added 3 crappy basketball programs recently...they made their schedules even worse next year. Further back they consistently passed on good program WVU when WVU needed a home.
This is what bothers me about the committee stating that ISU's weak non-con schedule hurt our ranking. Why didn't UNC's weak-@ss conference schedule hurt their ranking?
Also, the seedings didn't seem to be changed because of conference tournament performance, except Illinois and Wisconsin got bumps for it.
The ACC just added three geographic outliers that will make the conference schedules even weaker next year.
Will the committee account for that? Nope.
The bottom line is outside of Houston almost all of the top seeds played an easier schedule than ISU.
It reminds me of when they stole the football playoff away from TCU over Ohio State because of "TCU's schedule" when in actually TCU's schedule was slightly tougher than Ohio State heading into playoff/bowls and neither played a fantastic schedule that year.
In this case it's ISU and UNC both played elite schedules, UNC's was a little easier...but attack the strength of ISU and make up a false narrative that 16th out of 362 is "easy".
yeah the whole "weak ooc schedule" was just an excuse to put a blue blood over us. these teams will always have the favor of the committee, just look at michigan state getting a 9 seed when they arguably shouldnt even be in the tournament. go look at their schedule
I predict that Duquesne beats BYU as they win one last one for the Head Duke.
Duquesne Coach Announces Retirement Leading Up To BYU
BYU basketball NCAA Tournament First Round opponent Duquesne announced that head coach Keith Dambrot will retire at end of season.kslsports.com
Ahem, ya'll...
Because it's you, a fellow Boomer, I'll let you in on a little secret.
The winning numbers are all multiples of 1.
