Originally Posted by
Olympic Fan
I've seen Wichita State play half a dozen times and I don't think they are one of the 10 best teams in the country.
I would LOVE to face Wichita State in the Elite Eight to get to the Final Four.
They deserve credit for winning 30 straight games in a decent mid-major conference (the MVC is the 11th best conference in the RPI ratings). But it's not as impressive to be as St. Joe's 27-0 regular season in 2004 in a much stronger A-10. But beating a ton of mediocre teams is not my ideal of a great team. At this moment, 22 of their 30 wins are in the 100-plus range ... three more are 94-plus two are in the 70s. Their best win is at St. Louis -- another team that has a high RPI without beating anybody.
Pitchforks for you, my friend.
Echo everything here, and this is my train of thought:
-Duke is a really good team this year. Anything less than a Sweet 16 would be utterly disappointing
-I see Duke going to the EE, even barring a tough 3 or 4 seed. If we are a top 5 team, we should play like one.
-Florida, Arizona, and Kansas are the three teams that scare me the most. Florida has the experience and a really good coach, Arizona has the talent, the coach, and a top defense, and Kansas has the best collective talent in the country and a top coach. I don't want to face any of these teams before the Final Four
-What Wichita St has done is impressive, but, like OF, I don't see them as a top 10 team. Would you rather face Wichita St or Florida/Kansas/Arizona? IMO, I don't really think it's a debate
-I hope the committee puts the top 2 seed in WSU's bracket. If Kansas and Duke win out, that means one team gets the last 1 seed and the other gets WSU's 2 seed.
Is this simplistic? Absolutely. Do I have a simplistic mind? Probably.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. - Winston Churchill
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