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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
I'd say it's going to be hard to get a definition of that since, as was emphasized in the post-bracket show, conferences don't matter to the selection committee, it's the body of work. And I'd say there's a good bit more truth to that than a lot of people would like to acknowledge. Truth is, the committee sees (and I wholeheartedly agree) finishing .500 or even a game under that against quality competition as a better body of work than going 15-1 against a bunch of D1-in-name-only teams. The conferences provide the opportunity for those performances but in & of themselves they don't seem to be the direct determining factor.
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I think they're full of shit about the conferences. They matter to these guys no matter what they say. NCAA doesn't care about anything but money. There is a reason that the mid-majors have been slowly eliminated from the tournament. It came directly after all the BCS schools cried that they weren't getting enough teams and that they kept getting upset.
As for body of work, RPI is a great indicator of that. Factors in who you win and how good your opponents are. They stopped using that as a factor which tells me they don't really care about body of work.