Originally Posted by CE80
All the too powerful P5 and weak A10 talk aside, the Flyers always put a schedule together that gives them the opportunity to make the NCAAT field as an at large candidate. The seed may be questionable but if they win enough of the right games and don't lose too many of the wrong games, the will be selected. Many other non-P5 can't say the same thing.
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Yes, I agree, but I think 2 more good/tough games per year is a much more forgiving way to schedule things. If we stub our toe/have a bad game/suffer a short-term freak injury in the Bahamas or vs. MSU or Auburn, then the season could be ruined because of one single bad game.
And some of these exempt tournaments occur very early in the season, last year's exempt tourney was our 2nd, 3rd, and 4th games of the season, we had barely gotten our feet wet at that point, it is not fair to put so much weight on games that occur so early in the season.
I would really like it if we would give ourselves more chances to prove ourselves, without placing so much pressure on the limited number of truly big games.