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Originally Posted by jbergey22
8-6 vs teams seeded 9th or higher.
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You do realize that is good, right ? Having a winning record vs teams that collectively won 75-80% of their games is not exactly easy.
The other would be best conference, the Big 12:
Kansas 2-1
K St. 2-0
T A&M 1-2
Baylor 1-0
Mizz 0-2
Texas 2-0
OK St. No games
The Big 12 was 8-5 in non-conference games against the top 9 seeds, not exactly a crushing margin. I don't have time to do all the conferences, but saying that a conference "only" has a 8-6 record against the best 36 teams in the country is misleading. It implies that somehow a power conference would have done much better, but that is simply not the case - the top 9 seeds are that because they won most of their games.
You also seem to be using the losses of the bottom 3 to extrapolate that the top 5 have no shot of going to the final four. Those 5 teams went 7-3 against top 9 seeds.
Also, why cut it off at 9? That seems to be some cherry picking (like I did above by exlcluding Marquette and Louisville). Make it the top 11 for example, and you get SU's win vs Florida and Texas A&M's loss to Washington, thus flipflopping the half game difference between the two.