[Bart Tyson]

Originally posted by Hawks Coach
To satisfy my own curiosity, I took a quick glance at OSU. I see 16 games vs postseason teams, with a 13-3 record. Of those games, 7 were against NIT teams, 9 against NCAA teams, against whom they were 7-2. Duke played 8 NCAA teams in the last month of their schedule alone, and admittedly went 4-4 - not that impressive. However, they played 18 games and went 13-5 overall against NCAA competition - in other words, they played twice as many NCAA teams as OSU, and they played more NCAA teams than OSU had NCAA and NIT combined.

OSU played 7 out of their last 10 against tournament teams, but 3 were NIT, so they had 4 games in one month against NCAA tournament competition. Duke played 4 NCAA teams in a row during this same stretch. The only time OSU played any b2b games against NCAA teams was in their conference tournament. Slightly different situation, wouldn't you agree?

Still think OSU earned a 1 seed, but again, there are many sides to this.

Conference games are tough in any conference and to win the Big 12 is not a cake walk. I could be mistaken, But I believe OSU win not only the Tourney but the reg. season as well. I think you give Duke too much credit this yr. But, we shall see in the next three wks.