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(12-18-2020 11:51 AM)mturn017 Wrote:  

(12-18-2020 11:31 AM)Gilesfan Wrote:  

(12-18-2020 09:05 AM)Chillie Willie Wrote:  Anything can happen because the teams make it happen. They are champions because they win the important games. Statistical analysis and polls are great for conversation but different ones will produce different results. None are perfect. College football used to pick a champion based on polls and it was full of controversy. In today's climate there would be 3 recounts.

Any thing can happen in a game or a small sample. Like UVA losing to UMBC. They could play 100 times and UVA win 99 times.

That is what makes the tournaments exciting. But, they shouldn't be used to suggest who the better team is. The best teams aren't always crowned champions....which is fine.

Yeah but if you make your way to the Title game of the NCAA tourney then you would have had to have won 5 in a row. That's quite the feat for the 36th best team in the nation. Especially to have done it two years in a row. That's really statistically mind blowing. Or maybe they were underrated. Granted they had a favorable path in 2011, that would have been ours but for a last second tip in.

5 games is an extremely small sample size and are essentially statistically irrelevant.

Of course, people have the poor counter argument that they weren't trying as hard in the other 30 games during the season.

I do admit it much more fun not understanding this. I like to think we were better than Syracuse a couple years back.