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KU doesn't deserve a number 1 seed strictly on the basis of finding a way to lose at TCU. An elite team doesn't lose that game, even in the new world of college hoops parity.

UCLA a better team than when Texas played them.

Ken Pom's ratings have OU #50 and BU #42......................BU improved their position with the blow out of KU/OU by not showing up and then quitting is in a very precarious situation I would think if they lose game one in The Big 12 Tournament.

I know the committee says they don't count teams in a conference but its hard to believe The Big 12 gets more than 5

Other Big 12 Teams

#9 KU

#17 OSU

#36 KSU

#37 ISU

http://kenpom.com/

Lunardi's latest still has Baylor as #4 in the last 4 out. The KU blow-out didn't help

Mark Packard on College Sports Radio made a comment a while ago that I am not sure is believable.............he said the NCAA Selection Committee covers the names of the teams while selecting and only looks at the resumes. Any thoughts about that?

Still say this will be a year when nothing is predictable..............Liberty getting into the Tourney with 20 losses is a start.......

Am I the only one who wishes someone would tie Joe Lunardi up sometime in February, and lock him in a basement where he has no access to a computer until maybe right about this time in March.

The week of conference tournaments is about the earliest time I want to hear what Joe Lunardi thinks. Until then he's nothing more than a weatherman who issues a long range forcast and then keeps changing it every other day. Then, when he gets to the prescribed date he's pretty damn accurate.

They might do some blind resume stuff when there's an argument going on, but I've never heard that they cover the school names all the time. If they did that, you could never assess impact of an injury or suspension.

Lunardi is actually kind of a cool guy, but I admit that I can't stand his smug expressions when he pontificates on the tournament field. He is the color man for St. Joe's radio and was a long time associate (or assistant, I'm not sure) vice president of marketing for St. Joe's. Bracketology was just a sideline that kind of took over. He now teaches a course on the subject.

http://www.sju.edu/majors-programs/adult-learner/notforcredit/bracketology

He's far from the best at it, btw. Of the 10 bracketologists charted for the last 7 years, he came in 7th. I guess his popularity is a testament to his talent at marketing and the large audience of ESPN.

http://bracketproject.50webs.com/rankings.html

These guys came out on top, but you have to wait until Wednesday for an update. (Last week they didn't even have Baylor in their next four out.)

http://www.bustingthebracket.com/

I keep clicking on this thread looking for porn ratings.

But you have to think if the Big 12 was being screwed by seeding, then at least one team would have stepped up and played above seed, but no team did.

Texas (4) lost the 4/5 game.

Missouri (11) lost by 15 to a 6 seed that lost by double digits in the second round.

KU (1) lost regional finals to an 11 seed (a play in team, no less), which then lost its next game.

A&M (7) lost in the first round to a 10 seed.

K-State (5) lost in the second round to the four seed, which then lost its next game.

Not a good showing by the conference in 2011.

Its really just my own personal beef, I guess. I'm fine with what he wants to tell us right about now, and I realize he's fairly accurate.

But I simply don't care what his bracketology says in mid February because so much of it is going to be completely inaccurate by mid March.

It's not proof the seeding process was right, but it has a tendency to make more probable than not the fact that the conference as a whole didn't deserve any better.