Oklahoma Sooners (16-10; 4-9) / Next 5 Games

Right now we have nine QI/QII wins (4/5 split), so that number would rise to 11 total if we somehow get to seven B12 wins in the regular season. And not only do we not have any Q4 losses, we haven't even PLAYED a Q4 team, which I have to believe resonates in a tremendous way come Selection Sunday, since every other bubble team has, at the very least, three games against Q4 teams.
 
The bottom line is that the top 34 or 35 teams who don't win their conference tournaments deserve to be in the tournament, anyone else's arbitrarily subjective criteria notwithstanding. It doesn't matter if a team is over .500 in their conference, whether they play in a P5 conference, or whether they finish 7-11 or 6-12. It also doesn't matter if they go 12-1 outside of conference. The best at-large teams deserve to make it. Period. That's the criteria the selection committee uses.

There are PAC-12 teams with decent conference records who won't make it bc they haven't played a strong schedule and haven't beaten anyone. OU has lost some games but they have one of the toughest schedules in the country and have a lot of wins. I guess some of you can say, "they haven't won as many as I would like, and haven't played as well at times as I would have liked, therefore I don't think they belong in the tournament." Whatever. You're not on the selection committee and I'd guess that if you had the same exacting standards for every other team as you do for OU and looked at all those teams objectively, you'd reach the same conclusion that a team who's played OU's schedule, finished w 7 wins in the Big 12, and the worst loss is at West Virginia belongs in the tournament.

It's so absurd that OU fans want to only count the games that OU loses and the wins are all meaningless.
 
There are PAC-12 teams with decent conference records who won't make it bc they haven't played a strong schedule and haven't beaten anyone. OU has lost some games but they have one of the toughest schedules in the country and have a lot of wins. I guess some of you can say, "they haven't won as many as I would like, and haven't played as well at times as I would have liked, therefore I don't think they belong in the tournament." Whatever. You're not on the selection committee and I'd guess that if you had the same exacting standards for every other team as you do for OU and looked at all those teams objectively, you'd reach the same conclusion that a team who's played OU's schedule, finished w 7 wins in the Big 12, and the worst loss is at West Virginia belongs in the tournament.

It's so absurd that OU fans want to only count the games that OU loses and the wins are all meaningless.

Very well said; the P12 is the biggest reason we are even able to have this discussion. We'll all be HUGE Washington fans in four weeks time bc if they win the tourney it's very likely that the P12 is a one-bid league, which is simply unfathomable and unheard of for a power conference league.
 
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