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UEMcGill

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A&M is a case study that how you finish doesn't matter.


If you have a rough spot early in the year or mid season, that gets burned into the minds of the committee, and if you are not in the picture, you can't do anything but win an automatic bid to get in the tournament.

Whereas, if you start hot, or at least don't go cold at any point, you can fall the hell apart in the last quarter of the season and still get in.

Why? Because you got penciled in in the early thought process and forgot about. If you aren't thought about early, you can't do enough late to change it except win your way in via automatic bid.

The same can be said about seeding. Duke was penciled in as a number two seed a long time ago. They got their hat handed to them in two of their last four games. Didn't matter. They were going to stay on that two line because that was where they'd already been penciled in. How horribly they finished to get hammered in two of their last four had no impact.


[Post edited by UEMcGill at 03/14/2022 3:50PM]

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Posted: 03/14/2022 at 3:45PM


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  Poor Buzz was denied 😥 ** -- Tay790 03/14/2022 2:19PM
  A&M is a case study that how you finish doesn't matter. -- UEMcGill 03/14/2022 3:45PM
  No different from us so we made sure that didn’t happen by just winning it -- SCHokie1103 03/14/2022 4:37PM
  I agree. There is sooooo much discussion early on about bubble teams -- HokieToph 03/14/2022 4:33PM
  FWIW, Duke is #8 overall rank/seed. So one spot from 3-seed. -- HWA 03/14/2022 4:33PM
  If their name was Syracuse or UNC or Michigan, they get in w/ that resume -- LonghornHokie 03/14/2022 4:11PM
  Absolutely ** -- SCHokie1103 03/14/2022 4:36PM
  I think it's a bit simpler... -- jesuisvtguy 03/14/2022 4:02PM
  I don't think the committee even looks at those metrics -- EDGEMAN 03/14/2022 4:11PM
  Yeah, look at Rutgers and Wyoming -- Pylons 03/14/2022 4:19PM
  You know as well as I do that the committee wanted eyes on that Thursday -- reestuart 03/14/2022 6:20PM
  Rutgers got in because something something something Big 10 -- BigDave 03/14/2022 4:58PM
  If "something something" has to do with -- Pylons 03/14/2022 5:14PM
  They lost to 9-20 #319 Lafayette -- BigDave 03/14/2022 5:39PM
  I'd have no issue with them left out -- Pylons 03/14/2022 6:49PM
  So it’s not how u finish but how you start? Seems backwards doesn’t it? ** -- WV Gobbler 03/14/2022 3:58PM
  -1 ** -- fnhokie 03/14/2022 2:55PM
  ***** -- fnhokie 03/14/2022 2:55PM

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