(03-05-2018 03:53 PM)bearcatmark Wrote: UNC is 11-9 against NCAA tournament caliber competition (at large or bubble teams one way or the other).
Fans love to just tally losses, but based on overall body of work UNC is absolutely a top 8-12 team. Them as a 2 seed would be completely justified a little knock down to a 3 seed would be fine too.
The overall body doesn't matter. Would you rate a team that lost players left and right to injury by their overall body of work?
What about a team that's playing worse in the last half of their schedule, as opposed to their first half? People aren't usually capable of putting up an equal performance at anything all the time and to pretend that college basketball teams don't get better or worse by the end of a season is retarded. UCF right now is not where they were, SMU right now is not where they were, UNC right not is not where they were. UC is not where we once were.
UNC beat the crap out of Michigan back in November or December, yet they can barely beat Syracuse now. Michigan just knocked off a Michigan State team that seal clubbed UNC back in at the end of November. If I went by your logic, that shouldn't be possible. Do you think we played Xavier as well as we played Wichita State or that our team as a whole was as good then as it is now?
No. Of course not. If you can't be trusted to beat NC State, why are you so trust worthy to beat the entire field? I'm sorry, but they're not that good right now. The box-scores don't lie.
Yet that article says they're one of the teams that can win it all. Don't you think they should at least have to be a little better than 5th in their own conference first?
As far as tournament competition goes, don't you think thee 16 seeds are maybe a little worse than the 1's? How much room is there between Radford and Virginia?
Sorry, but that's not really a qualitative statement. Lots of teams are tournament caliber that aren't good either. You're implying there exists some plateau and only the best 68 teams get in and that they're all basically equal. I don't think that's even remotely true.