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Originally posted by cmathews
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Originally posted by LDUB
Who wants to play Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Iowa or Michigan in the first round? Who would even want to play Northwestern??? They went 8-8 in league play. So the ACC has several good teams. The Big Ten does also.
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Ok give me a shot at this one.......I will take any one of the last 3...oh wait they aren't in..so actually they and Wyoming could schedule a game...and hey we beat Dayton damn it, and they got in, what is the committee thinking geeeeeeesh.....HEY....we beat Washington too....how in the name of basketball nets can the committee consider Stanford a number one, we beat the team that beat them.....wow we got jobbed........man oh man am I steamed now LOL 
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The fact that thre of them are not in the tournament is exactly what I am trying to get across. They are good enough to have teams not want to play them. It means something when teams do not want to have to face the bad teams from your league.
I don't think Maryland should even be in the NCAA tournament. I know everyone will say they won the ACC so they are in. But the won the ACC tournament. Any middle of the road team with a little bit of luck will has a chance at winning a tournament. I'm not putting down the ACC for this. So many confrences have it this way, the Big Ten Included. I believe that the automatic bid should come from the season champion. That is where the better teams come out on top. We all know Duke is better than Maryland, so why does Maryland get the automaic bid?
This espicially hurts the small confrences. Everyone knows before their confrence tournament, that they will only get one team into the NCAA tournament. It should be the team that proved to be the best team durring the season should be getting into the NCAA tournament. Not the team which got lucky over the weekend.