And add to that (don't know if discussed in article) the NCAA gives auto bids to these Archived Message
Posted by Sydney Carton on March 14, 2017, 10:10:28, in reply to "I think so. Look, Northern Iowa got UNC to travel up there and beat them. Creighton got good enough"
dogshit conferences. The tourney is (nominally) the 48 best teams, with 20 more thrown in a cannon fodder. Previous Message to move into a rejiggered Big East. If anything, the bracket makers are so desperate to create upsets and drama that good mid major teams are given a bump in the selection process over middle of the pack big conference schools. The Committee wants to see things like a Dayton over OSU upset rather than say Washington or some mid pack Pac 12 school beating OSU. Previous Message Hey ISU, you want to make the tournament? Don't lose to shitty teams. Previous Message http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2017/03/how_the_ncaa_abuses_statistics_to_stack_the_deck_against_small_schools_like.html But it’s even less fair than that for the Redbirds. Power-conference teams are also less likely to lose to bad teams, because the power-conference teams usually play those games at home. Most of their poor opponents are found in the nonconference schedule, where they have the economic leverage to schedule programs from lesser conferences. Indeed, of the eight games that Marquette played against teams outside the top 100, just one—Big East rival DePaul—was on the road. To make things even easier for Marquette, four of its “bad” opponents were really, really bad, falling in the bottom 100 of Division I basketball’s 351 teams. Those games are virtually automatic wins for any team with even remote tournament dreams.
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