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MVC coaches questioning BracketBuster?

2006 was an injustice upon a dozen independent injustices. I don't care what anyone says. That freaking game, when compared with the boost other bubble contenders got from BB, actually cost BU several spots in the SoS and **** near burst our bubble. We're probably up a seed line that year if we never played that game.
 
squirrelgotdead said:
I don't call drawing down being hosed if you're only 9-7 or whatever we were.

Hosed implies some great injustice was done. If we had been better, we would have drawn better.
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TheAsianSensation said:
2006 was an injustice upon a dozen independent injustices. I don't care what anyone says. That freaking game, when compared with the boost other bubble contenders got from BB, actually cost BU several spots in the SoS and **** near burst our bubble. We're probably up a seed line that year if we never played that game.
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Well, I revisited the RPI data from Feb 1, 2006 and went thru the matchups teams got. Based on Home/Road.... basically:
Iona drew Buffalo over us and Ohio drew Samford over us. So we got the next best thing at the time - Tenn Tech. Buffalo finished 103 in the RPI and Samford finished 76. So conference standings played a role in who got to choose a matchup first. Kinda amazing the bcs-mentality of ESPN would let a middle team from the best conference not get the nod over a team near the top of a lesser conference. And that is where we got shafted. And we weren't the only ones... Manhattan was 53 in the RPI on Feb 1st (ahead of Bradley) and drew (then in the RPI) #239 Long Beach St.

Looking back at the RPI from Feb 1, 2006... it's also amazing to see how the tv matchups had some teams drawing down... some way down. At the time, Creighton was 18 and got 123 Fresno St. :-o
 
2006 was a mess. They forgot their #1 mission - to help resumes. They let politics (not letting a conference get 6 teams on TV, among them) get in the way of it.

Of course, 2006 was so loaded with mid major darlings ESPN didn't know what to do with them.
 
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