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mrjames 
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03-17-18 10:45 AM - Post#253596    
    In response to Stuart Suss

A fair number of Cinderellas share that trait from this decade alone. What I will caution - as I know you know, Stu - is that we don’t see the number of upsets that would have happened, in comparison, if the true 1-seeds had gone in those teams’ places (both the non-1-seeds that won AND more importantly, the myriad non-1-seeds that got beat).

While I like to point out the non-1-seeds that go on to do this to demonstrate that not sending the 1 seed isn’t a death sentence (it isn’t - we’d have never seen Dunk City if the A-SUN sent regular season champ Mercer, for instance), I think it’d be hard to argue the expected wins from sending all 1-seeds wouldn’t be much higher than sending the conf tourney winners.
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