How's this for timing? It's an e-mail that came in well before Wednesday night's Tobacco Road(kill) results.
Should Duke qualify for a No. 2 seed without winning a single game "at" some other team's gym? Couple of nice neutral court wins, but no road wins. Compare [this to] Pitt, another No. 2 seed, but with wins at 'Cuse, Cincy and UConn. I know you are immune to the "name on the jersey," but the S-Curve is not the end-all-be-all!
Of course, the mighty, improved, this-year-we-promise-they'll-live-up-to-the-seed Blue Devils have only played [three] road games. Come to think of it, do you think avoiding "roadies" until these later dates is why Duke has been rated much higher every year in January than they ended up finishing for ... a long time?
It is never too soon to fill out a bracket,
Chris Regan
Good questions all, Chris, and I like the healthy dose of sarcasm, too. The real issue, of course, is that all the RPI weighting in the world can't force the big-timers to play more road games if they don't want to. This is why, even at this late point of the season, we still see the following:
