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In response to "Toughest Brackets: South, MidWest, West, East -- nm" by budice

I continue to be outraged that Wichita St. got assigned to a play-in game.

Posted by Cadbarony Creme Egg (aka BaronWasteland) Mar 14 '16, 06:18

They won their league by 4 games, and finished 5 games ahead of Northern Iowa, who sits on the same seed line and doesn't have a play-in game.

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The tourney is becoming such a joke. The pandering to football schools/conferences is outrageous. -- nm - decline Mar 14, 06:44
UNI won the conference tournament so that put Wichita into the at-large group where they were judged against - Krusty Mar 14, 06:38 8
- All true. Their strongest opponents were early in the season when, unfortunately, Van Vleet was out. -- nm - Cadbarony Creme Egg Mar 14, 06:50 7
  - I don't know what happened but they didn't schedule many top 50 or 100 teams. I don't know if they couldn't get those schools to play them - Krusty Mar 14, 06:52 6
    - None of those schools ever want to play the Missouri Valley. It's always been an issue. -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 14, 06:58 5
      - It's infuriating really. The big conference teams are scared of the very real possibility of losing to an MVC team, so they won't schedule them... - Jim Mar 14, 07:03
      - I would love to see the NCAA set up some sort of rotation where the major conference schools have to play a mid-major from each conference but there's - Krusty Mar 14, 07:02 3
        
        That would bump some of the NAIA and D-II teams they play early on though! - spamlet Mar 14, 07:23 1
        
        Haha! -- nm - Krusty Mar 14, 07:25
        
        How about instead of the Big 10/ACC matchup or the Big 12/SEC challenge they can do it with mid-major conferences. -- nm - Krusty Mar 14, 07:11
And conversely, there are those that Wichita St made the tournament at all vs say Monmouth -- nm - JD Mar 14, 06:28 9
- The #12 team in the country's tournament bid shouldn't be up for debate. - David Mar 14, 06:38
- Oh I'd have dumped some mediocre major conference school like Pitt, Syracuse, or Michigan in a second to include Monmouth. -- nm - Cadbarony Creme Egg Mar 14, 06:37 1
  - Seriously, if for no other reason than optics for Syracuse. - Will Hunting Mar 14, 06:40
- maybe Monmouth shoulda been more focused on honing basketball skills instead of clever sideline dance routines -- nm - prayformojo Mar 14, 06:35 5
  - Monmouth had bad losses that cost them a spot. No other team in the conversation lost four times to teams near or out of the top 200. -- nm - Krusty Mar 14, 06:39 4
    - Becuase most of the mid-majors don't play teams that low. - Will Hunting Mar 14, 06:41 3
      - The schedules are the toughest thing for some of these schools to overcome. There are only so many non-conference games and getting a big school to -- (edited) - Krusty Mar 14, 06:43 2
        
        Well, Monmouth is hosed now becuase no big school will take them on. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 14, 06:45 1
        
        Pretty much. It's so difficult for the mid-majors. -- nm - Krusty Mar 14, 06:47

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