I got a slew of explanations a couple days ago.

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Mar 4, 2020
8:57:55am

OPINIONS All-American

I got a slew of explanations a couple days ago.

It's a game the WCC plays to avoid an early-round upset of a bubble team and to avoid the top-seeds from having their NET rating dragged down by playing an additional Q4 team. It's kind of anti-competition (IMO), but it's probably the new normal for mid-majors.

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Is this normal?

chazen

3/4/20 8:46am

It's the new normal... for the WCC.

Y-Zag

3/4/20 8:48am

No. My understanding is this was done to appease the Zags

OSUCougar

3/4/20 8:48am

So they weren't exhausted for the NCAA tournament?

chazen

3/4/20 8:49am

Protects their NET rating

3/4/20 8:52am

So the conference tournament didn’t bring their rating down playing a bad team

dchandle15

3/4/20 8:54am

To protect their metrics

Schultz is back

3/4/20 9:04am

i'm ok with it. you only have 3-4 teams with even an outside chance of winning

v1k0u6

3/4/20 8:55am

Change I would consider that Zags should support is only inviting top 8 teams

fbguru

3/4/20 8:56am

Not a big deal to give San Diego and Portland a game

Doogal McCougar

3/4/20 9:14am

I got a slew of explanations a couple days ago.

OPINIONS

3/4/20 8:57am

How does it make it near impossible for the high seeds to win it all?

AD4

3/4/20 9:00am

Ah, I guess you mean high seed as higher/greater numerical value rather than higher ranked.

AD4

3/4/20 9:07am

It's because the bottom 7 teams in the WCC are really bad. Bad NET.

Destin

3/4/20 9:01am

My confusion is high seed=poor season, low seed-=high performance

Florwood

3/4/20 9:03am

It's done to protect NET rankings of the top 3 of the conference. Makes sense.

JohnScott

3/4/20 9:05am

Let's be honest. The WCC is 1 great team, 2 good teams, and a bunch of dregs.

ReyOso

3/4/20 9:16am

Agree. That's the biggest issue that challenges the WCC national credibility.

Destin

3/4/20 9:20am

It's to stack the deck so the best team wins the auto-bid

SconnieCoug

3/4/20 9:20am

The best team already gets in every year. This helps St. Mary's and BYU.

ReyOso

3/4/20 9:56am

Not really normal, but not exactly unique to the WCC. The old Big East

JadoX

3/4/20 9:44am

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