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--- Mike Kerry <mkcubs@...> wrote:

> I can think of a couple of teams that were in the
> top 5 in February that had a player hurt and were
> never the same and were 1 and done in their
> conference tournament and the NCAA tournament.
> Probably a Valley team the past few years that
> received the short end of the stick for the NCAA but
> they were for RPI not voting as they don't have the
> names like the big 6 conferences.
>
> But isn't this a totally irrelevant question? Must
> be a Duke or UConn fan. Rankings of some teams this
> year seems to be given due to the history of the
> program rather than this years team effort.
>
> You play a season of games, 27 or 30 maybe 31
> depending on the tournaments the team was in. You
> don't play 25 games and say please don't look at the
> final 5 or 6 games that we were beaten in. What
> about the teams that started the year slowly and
> then won their last 8 of 10 games but don't make a
> tournament? Clemson was 17-0 until they hit the
> skids, were they a top team early this year and are
> they on the bubble now? Plus they were given a bad
> break at Duke. The answer always is it's about the
> whole season. Let's play the games and then see
> where people are ranked. But with seedings these
> days do they even follow the rankings?
>
> This is like the handringing with the BCS, oh my,
> with 5 games to go we have 7 unbeaten teams. Oh my,
> what will happen? Play the games out and guess what
> there are often only 1 or 2 unbeaten then but the
> media gets fans get all worried about what will
> happen in the future. Almost like you have to book
> your plane ticket in advance to get a cheap fare, it
> has to be done now but I don't know if my team will
> be there. This has become just goofy with the video
> game mentality that we need an answer in 15 minutes
> rather than watching the real game for 2 or 3 hours.
>
>
> Mike Kerry
>
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