The advice I would have is to look at the performance of the team. I understand their questions. I understand their disappointment. The committee is equally devastated when we know there are excellent teams that won't have an opportunity to play.
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These schools are just buying games, buying wins. That's not fair, and it's not what's good for college basketball. ... There has to be some reward for people willing to play a good schedule and realizing that when you play good people, you're going to win some and you're going to lose some. We should reward the people that are willing to challenge their teams.Craig Littlepage
I think the other side of that is, it's not always the best thing when friends are working together. There could be the tendency for objectivity to be lost in that sort of situation. When people have worked together in a past life and then get back together under different circumstances, it doesn't always work out.
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I don't think we look at it in terms of how many teams qualify from one league. We made our selections based on teams, not conferences. And I also I think this selection disproves the myth that (the process is exclusively) RPI driven.
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We endeavor to try to provide as much transparency, within reason, as to how the committee works, why it does what it does.
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Florida State certainly had an outstanding year. When we looked at the full work that they did in comparison to a pool of other people at the point that we were considering these schools, the decision was made to go in a different direction.
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