The new quadrant system, and all the things that are "no longer selection criteria" such as how you are playing lately, where you finished in your conference, etc are total disasters and I expect them to be fixed.
St. Marys
St. Marys was 28-5... and were ranked #20 in the country last week. How does a top 25 team who won 28 games not make the NCAA tournament? SOS, RPI, bla bla whatever. This team has been in the top 25 for the last part of the year and didn't make it against teams who finished at the bottom of their own leagues.
USC
They were 23-11 and finished 2nd in the Pac 10. I agree with their coach completely. They won 11 games away from home, had an RPI of 23, and a SOS of 37. What in the hell happened here?
"If all that matters is the quality of your best win or two on your schedule, then we shouldn't even play and just set the field in December after the out-of-conference was complete," he said. "It basically discredited our entire league schedule, and no matter what we or some of the other teams in our league did during the Pac-12 or the conference tournament did not obviously matter."
Oklahoma State
It seems bizarre to me that a team gets judged so heavily by crap teams on their schedule.. They won those games. They beat Kansas twice, beat Oklahoma twice, beat Texas Tech, beat West Virginia... Again, just like the USC coach said, might as well just set the bracket at Xmas because apparently nothing else matters. Winning that Texas game they lost by 1 or that Arkansas game they lost by 1 would have done it, probably, but they should be in regardless.
