The issue with having so many teams from the same conference ranked as high as we are is you beat each up over the course of a season and maybe one or 2 come away with a good enough record to maybe have a chance at a #1 seed. 12 of the last 19 champions were #1 seeds and all but 2 since 1998 were Top 3 seeds. I could see where so many teams have beaten each other up that the SEC loses out on these top seeds. Look at Bama, they currently are slated to finish the last 7 games of the season against ranked opponents. That's brutal. We have a 3 game stretch coming up where we are on the road 3 of the next 4 games all against ranked opponents, including the #1 team. We could easily have 9 losses heading into March Madness and still be good enough to make it to the Final 4. But a high seed is needed to win it all. UConn is the only teams since 98 to win it all as a low seed and they did it twice.
Yes sir- our game vs Butler in 2011. It was 14 years ago but I remember refs just making up fouls out of whole cloth to get Butler back in the game. They did- we went to OT and lost. Still smh over that one...