The Committee (as always) rigs the selections to not embarrass the big conferences

The Committee (as always) rigs the selections to not embarrass the big conferences Big 6 Committee Advocate: "I don't want ANY of my teams to get embarrassed by the good mid majors" Head guy "Be reasonable! We have 9 non major teams seeded 9 or better. NO WAY we can put all 9 of these guys vs. other mid/small conference teams" Big 6 Advocate "Ok.....do this, take three of the four biggest name non majors, Xavier, Gonzaga, BYU, Temple, and go ahead and pair them vs. some of our guys, but avoid any of our favorite teams in the North East......Fla and MIn both don't even deserve a bid, so they won't complain, and if they get woodshedded, it's ok cause Xavier and BYU have good reps.......be sure to use the Zags also, but send them way East, and put them vs. an east team. NO WAY we let Nmex, temple, butler, richmond, or NOrthern Iowa embarrass our guys. PUt them vs. small/mid schools only, throw UNLV vs. one of them. Also, be sure try to give them all 5 or 8/9 seeds. SO they get anhilated in rd 2 (8/9s) OR round 3. We have to give one of the little guys a 6 seed? OK, choose the biggest name, Temple or Xavier. ..........I'm shocked these guys didn't figure it out that they needed to protect Purdue. BUT RIDICULOUS that the top non major no name schools NEVER get a big conference opponent to pound. New Mexico, Temple, Butler, richmond, Northern Iowa, UNLV, BYU, xavier, gonazaga, 9 teams They send the zags to Buffalo, and give the big name team Xavier the big10 team. Only game the big 6 can get embarrssed in is the BYU /fla game.

[QUOTE=Fezzik;19028] Only game the big 6 can get embarrssed in is the BYU /fla game.[/QUOTE] And Florida doesn't mind, otherwise they never would have scheduled Xavier in February (a home loss.)

i thought they did a better job. but still some crappy matchups: 1) unlv vs noriowa when Cal/LV or Tx/WF opponents would have been better for each of them. 2) rich vs stm when okst/gtech or clem/mizzy would have been better i didnt like utep vs butler..but all the 12 seeds were non power conference teams so there wasnt a lot of movement there. by my count only 7 of the 32 first round matchups have Power vs Power and Non-Power vs Non-Power (not including NewMex vs Montana cuz they were going to get a non-power team no matter what). 2 of those matchups were 5/12 seeds where all 12's were non power teams as mentioned so there wasnt much they could do there. Temple, like NMex, was pretty much locked in to playing a non-power team as well. Frankly I thought they shoulda been a 4 seed but a 5 sint much difference. if they had simply switched 3 of the games UNLV vs LV and Cal vs NorIowa Rich vs GTech and OKSt vs STM Temp vs Wash and Marq vs Cornell I think they would have done a pretty good job of things. your argument of NMex is pretty invalid because you'll never find a power conference as a 13 seed.....