Knight SEC Postseason oddity Topic

All 12 teams made postseason in SEC, which is pretty cool (6 NT, 6 PI), but that isn't really the oddity.  The oddity is that the NT teams went 6-0 in the 1st round, while the PI teams went 0-6.  Would be willing that's the first time that's happened in any conference in any world.  I'm probably the only person who cares about this, lol.

Knight 1st round in general was about as chalky as possible.  a pair of 10 seeds won, but other than that, every higher seed won.
1/27/2012 8:25 AM
Houston (8 seed), Wyoming (8 seed), and Temple (5 seed) are the only non-power conference teams to make the 2nd round.  ACC has 6 (6-2 first round), Big 12 has 4 (4-4), Big East has 5 (5-0), Big 10 has 4 (4-2), PAC 10 has 4 (4-1) and the SEC has 6 (6-0).  This means power conferences were 29-9 in the first round.  Out of the 37 at-large bids, 32 went to power conference teams.  4 out of five of those conferences had teams get in because they pulled an upset in the NT.  Only the MWC had 2 NT worthy teams, all other non-power conferences had 1 or 0.  To me, this looks pretty bad, and I'm in a power conference.  I really wish it were easier for mid-majors to compete, but unless we  get changes this will be the way of the NT.
1/27/2012 9:42 AM
Knight SEC Postseason oddity Topic

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