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Don't feed the troll. He hates A&M and has proven that for years. Shows up every time he thinks he can rub it in, then hides until his next opportunity. Can't win an argument with him because he will keep changing the perimeters of the conversation to fit his trolling.

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How the hell am I trolling? I didn't put down a&m or say they weren't a good team. Take off the maroon glasses and stop blaming the officials and the committee every time A&M doesn't have something go their way in a sport. It's really simple, do better than 10-8 down the stretch and the ag's host. Every time y'all lose it's someone else's fault.

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You're looking to pick a selective reason why we shouldn't have got a seed. TCU's resume loses to ours no matter how you slice it. Winning a weak conference is the only thing they have. We'd have ran away with that crap conference. Our RPI, SOS, and record all beat them. You're ignoring a whole bunch of data to focus on the one point that agrees with your bias.

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Why are we ignoring the first half of the season?

Did we develop a pre-season the nobody knows about?

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Cagin, please explain why TCU deserved the national seed over A&M. Especially since they went 0-2 in the BDF tourney. A&M has a higher RPI and SOS. Not to mention that A&M went 14-7 against top 50 RPI teams while TCU went 7-5. How the hell does a team from a "power" conference only play 12 games against top 50 RPI teams?

Why does it matter if they won their conference? RPI exists for this reason...to try to find a way to compare these teams from different conferences. Where they finish is completely irrelevant.

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The conference tourney doesn't do much for a team unless they are trying to play their way into the post season(ex. ULL & UT). LSU could have went 0-2 and still been the # 2 seed. My point is the committee seems to look at winning the regular season by 3 games in the # 4 ranked conference is stronger than placing 3rd in the # 1 ranked conference. Pretty sure the chairman of the selection committee said they didn't put as much weight on RPI during the selection as they do some years. They said the same thing in 2011. If they went strictly off of rpi then 2 teams from the 7th ranked conference in DBU and Missouri st would have been in the top 8 host sites.

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They are paired with OSU because OSU is within driving distance and Vandy is not.

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I don't think A&M's draw is all that bad. Even if A&M got a national seed, we likely would have been matched with either the TCU or Dallas Baptist (or Houston) regionals. It sucks to have to play them on the road, but I like A&M's chances against TCU. A&M's subregional also looks pretty weak.

I agree with OP that the committee gifted LSU a trip to Omaha with their draw.

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