We played #7, #11, #22 and #22 in the regular season in 2008 and were a #1 seed.PhDhawk wrote: ↑Tue Jun 04, 2019 1:50 pm "look who we beat" arguments don't have anything to do with age, or online fans, it has to do with tournament seeding. The tournament committee is still made of human beings, and public perception still factors in.
Villanova and KU both had 9 losses going into the tourney and we were a 4 seed and they were a 6 seed. We had a much tougher SOS.
The grind of the season isn't going to subside because of the non-con schedule. The big12 needs 1 or 2 truly shitty teams to give the team a break during conference season for that to happen, but the strength of the Big12 is there are no bad teams, so no easy games after we change calendars. Scheduling Incarnate Word in November isn't going to save Dotson legs in March.
We have a zillion Big 12 games against ranked teams next year. We dont need a non-con game against a big name, but still beatable, P5 team to get us a #1 seed.
We didnt get a #4 seed instead of a #6 seed last year because we beat Stanford at home (barely). Most viewed it as embarrassing that we didnt beat them by more. We got it because we beat Elite teams in Tennessee, Michigan State, Nova, Marquette, Texas Tech and Kansas State while Nova only had wins vs. Florida State and Marquette to lean on.
If the Big 12 caliber dips way down then ramp up the non con but we dont need 20+ games against tourney teams. It's overkill.