When a P5 team that has a suspect, at best, resume and gets in and then advances far it only proves to me that they underachieved during the regular season. It should be based on actual results not what the talent on the team says they should be doing. If we wanted that we'd just have KenPom predict who won the tournament and crown them national champions because on paper they should win it.
The thing I am sick of hearing from P5 schills is that it is not their responsibility to give games, especially away games, to non-P5 schools. And when the non-P5 don't have enough opportunities and therefore not enough Q1/Q2 wins its on resume it's their own fault for not getting enough "good" games. BUT then they can't have their cake and eat it too. Actually winning games needs to become more important and when a P5 flounders through their league schedule it should be the same argument that you chose to be in your conference and play all of those "good" games so if you lose a lot of them then so be it it is on you. No one is holding a gun to their head saying they need to be in the conference they are in.
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