[Hieronymus]

We beat a 1- and a 2-seed at home, lost to two 4-seeds away, and tied an 8-seed and an unseeded tourney team away. I'm thinking Notre Dame was the last 1-seed and we were the first 3-seed? The Cal tie might have made a difference, but impossible to know.

So I don’t really agree with the seeding committee,  but the committee logic is simple. UCLA was carried by their big ACC wins - duke and NC. They are still 3rd in the RPI as a result. But RPI got way too locked into the ACC this year and then it all becomes a big self-fulfilling feedback loop.

For really silly look at NC state agin. They really beat nobody out of conference. A couple of good ties. Lost to Harvard. Lost to VCU. Mostly got destroyed by the good ACC teams - 6 to 0 vs. Duke. Yikes. Their only good win was Clemson. That got them 39 in the RPI and somehow an 8 seed. For reference Massey has them at …. 60. Seems way more accurate.

BTW Massey is also way higher on the pac12. UCLA 1, Stanford 5 and USC 8.

[Hieronymus]

We beat a 1- and a 2-seed at home, lost to two 4-seeds away, and tied an 8-seed and an unseeded tourney team away. I'm thinking Notre Dame was the last 1-seed and we were the first 3-seed? The Cal tie might have made a difference, but impossible to know.

So I don’t really agree with the seeding committee,  but the committee logic is simple. UCLA was carried by their big ACC wins - duke and NC. They are still 3rd in the RPI as a result. But RPI got way too locked into the ACC this year and then it all becomes a big self-fulfilling feedback loop.

For really silly look at NC state agin. They really beat nobody out of conference. A couple of good ties. Lost to Harvard. Lost to VCU. Mostly got destroyed by the good ACC teams - 6 to 0 vs. Duke. Yikes. Their only good win was Clemson. That got them 39 in the RPI and somehow an 8 seed. For reference Massey has them at …. 60. Seems way more accurate.

BTW Massey is also way higher on the pac12. UCLA 1, Stanford 5 and USC 8.