Purdue- 3 (Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State)
Marquette- 2 (Seton Hall, Providence)
Duke- 3 (Georgia Tech, Pitt, Arkansas)
Kansas- 3 (UCF, Kansas State, West Virginia)
Arizona- 4 (Stanford, Oregon State, Wash St, soon to be FAU after they lost again today)
UNC- 3 (Georgia Tech, Syracuse, Villanova)
Wisconsin- 5 (Providence, Penn State, Michigan, Rutgers, Iowa)- and the committee SOMEHOW ranked them #16 yesterday?!?!?
I could keep going down the list.
KENTUCKY- ZERO. I repeat- ZERO losses to teams not currently projected to make the NCAA tournament. Including UNC Wilmington.
ZERO.
We should not have all of our losses. We know that. Florida/Gonzaga/Wilmington especially. But man, it really feels like we are graded on a slightly different curve by the computers and media than everyone else is.
Some of these teams have bad, and I mean BAD losses. We have some losses that are certainly not to our standard, and Cal has been appropriately roasted for that.
But we don't have any losses like what some of the teams I mentioned above have, and no one seems to give us credit for that part of it.
UNC for instance only has 4 wins against the current field, 3 losses against teams outside of the current field, PLUS we beat them, yet it's just a forgone conclusion that they are 2 or 3 seed lines higher.
Idk, just wanted to point out something that I think is a pretty significant stat.