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Old 03-11-2007, 11:27 PM   #1
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If you had told me after the losses to Lamar and BSU that we would end up 8th seed in the NCAA tournament, I would not have believed it for a second.
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Arkansas. How can a team that goes 7-9 in their conference get an at-large bid. Freaking ridiculous.
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Old 03-12-2007, 12:52 AM   #3
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Arkansas. How can a team that goes 7-9 in their conference get an at-large bid. Freaking ridiculous.
It's because of their conference. I don't understand the love that some conferences receive. The MVC for one.

I don't understand some of the seeding. Duke is a 6? USC a 5? Stanford an 11 seed? They shouldn't have even earned a bid.

Personally I am fine with an 8 seed. But playing as an 8 seed in Xavier's backyard? It seems kind of low based on all of the projections as well. I thought a 7 for UNLV was kind of a low seed.
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Arkansas. How can a team that goes 7-9 in their conference get an at-large bid. Freaking ridiculous.
Arkansas? I thought you were talking about Duke.
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It's because of their conference. I don't understand the love that some conferences receive. The MVC for one.

I don't understand some of the seeding. Duke is a 6? USC a 5? Stanford an 11 seed? They shouldn't have even earned a bid.

Personally I am fine with an 8 seed. But playing as an 8 seed in Xavier's backyard? It seems kind of low based on all of the projections as well. I thought a 7 for UNLV was kind of a low seed.
The MVC gets love because their conference RPI is high, because the perform in the tournament (or at least have lately) and because, especially this year they had a bunch of great out of conference wins, which is noticeably lacking in some of the BCS schools resumes.

I was absolutely furious when I saw that we got an 8. I was not surprised. What is truly outrageous though is UNLV as a 7, Creighton with a 10, while Vanderbilt has a 6, USC has a 5, Virginia has a 4. I wonder why they even try to appear as if they are objective. Clearly they are not.
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Not only an 8th seed, but to get in the same bracket as Ohio State! Ouch.
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