Stop with the insanity!!

Just a quick thought on people's arguments over bubble teams:

Answer: Who have you played, who have you beaten and who did they beat.

This answer can be applied to the following five rants/complaints for bubble teams:

1. History. "Winning 20 games and 10 games in conference guarantees a bid every year". Unbalanced league and non-conference schedules make this point moot
2. "My team is over .500 in conference". See response to question 1.
3. "My team is on a roll right now"
4. "Our conference had 6 teams last year, there's no way there should be less this year"
5. "Our conference had 2 teams in the final four last year, there should be a lot more from our conference this year because of that"


No question you can make valid arguments on who Syracuse, Drexel, Missouri St., Florida St. etc have beaten compared to the likes of Illinois, Stanford, Arkansas, etc. Just please, stop with those 5 reasons for excluding or including a team in the tournament.

Statistical salutations to follow later today. On with the greatest 3 weeks of the year! ******updated******** Well, here's some quick thoughts actually:

See previous posts below for previous year's quick snapshot of tempo-free bran flakes.
Here's how the top 5 seeds look this year:

2007 NCAA Tournament Bracket Tempo-Free Snapshot

Seed	2007	Pos	Oeff	Deff	Margin	EFG	TO	Oreb	Defg	Defg	Dto	Doreb
1	North Carolina	73	1.23	0.84	0.39	55%	19%	39%	46%	46%	22%	30%
1	Kansas	69.6	1.18	0.81	0.37	54%	20%	38%	43%	43%	24%	30%
1	Florida	66.4	1.23	0.87	0.36	59%	21%	37%	45%	45%	20%	29%
1	Ohio St.	65.4	1.22	0.86	0.35	54%	18%	35%	46%	46%	21%	32%
2	Georgetown	60.2	1.24	0.88	0.35	57%	23%	40%	44%	44%	20%	33%
2	Wisconsin	64.3	1.17	0.85	0.32	52%	18%	36%	46%	46%	22%	29%
2	UCLA	64.3	1.18	0.87	0.31	54%	18%	34%	48%	48%	23%	30%
2	Memphis	69.4	1.16	0.86	0.3	52%	19%	39%	43%	43%	24%	32%
3	Texas A&M	65.6	1.2	0.86	0.34	56%	19%	34%	43%	43%	22%	30%
3	Pittsburgh	62.9	1.19	0.9	0.28	53%	18%	37%	46%	46%	19%	32%
3	Oregon	67	1.19	0.93	0.26	53%	19%	36%	49%	49%	22%	32%
3	Washington St.	60.9	1.12	0.9	0.22	52%	16%	27%	46%	46%	22%	31%
4	Maryland	72.9	1.15	0.86	0.29	53%	21%	36%	43%	43%	23%	36%
4	Texas	68.5	1.22	0.94	0.28	52%	17%	37%	48%	48%	20%	34%
4	Southern Illinois	61.8	1.09	0.87	0.21	52%	22%	32%	48%	48%	24%	29%
4	Virginia	69	1.14	0.94	0.2	51%	19%	37%	47%	47%	19%	32%
5	Virginia Tech	64.4	1.15	0.91	0.24	51%	16%	34%	48%	48%	22%	34%
5	Butler	59.3	1.18	0.94	0.24	53%	15%	30%	46%	46%	21%	33%
5	Tennessee	72.5	1.15	0.93	0.22	51%	19%	34%	52%	52%	25%	36%
5	Southern California	67.8	1.12	0.91	0.21	53%	21%	30%	45%	45%	21%	34%

And seeds 6 through 12:

Seed	2007	Pos	Oeff	Deff	Margin	EFG	TO	Oreb	Defg	Defg	Dto	Doreb
6	Duke	65.6	1.14	0.85	0.29	53%	23%	36%	46%	46%	22%	30%
6	Notre Dame	71.1	1.21	0.93	0.28	54%	18%	37%	47%	47%	21%	31%
6	Louisville	64.9	1.15	0.88	0.27	50%	19%	37%	45%	45%	22%	34%
6	Vanderbilt	67.5	1.16	0.96	0.2	53%	18%	29%	51%	51%	21%	33%
7	Indiana	65.5	1.19	0.92	0.27	52%	19%	36%	47%	47%	22%	33%
7	Boston College	64.7	1.19	0.97	0.22	53%	21%	38%	49%	49%	18%	37%
7	Nevada Las Vegas	66	1.12	0.93	0.19	51%	16%	35%	48%	48%	23%	35%
7	Nevada	67.2	1.17	1	0.17	55%	19%	37%	46%	46%	17%	30%
8	Kentucky	67.5	1.18	0.91	0.27	54%	21%	34%	47%	47%	19%	32%
8	Arizona	69.1	1.2	0.95	0.25	53%	20%	38%	51%	51%	17%	31%
8	Marquette	68.7	1.14	0.91	0.23	50%	21%	39%	47%	47%	24%	35%
8	Brigham Young	68.6	1.16	0.97	0.19	55%	19%	36%	49%	49%	19%	29%
9	Michigan St.	62.1	1.14	0.87	0.26	52%	24%	41%	44%	44%	20%	30%
9	Villanova	66.8	1.15	0.89	0.26	49%	20%	40%	48%	48%	23%	32%
9	Purdue	67.9	1.11	0.88	0.23	52%	21%	35%	48%	48%	24%	33%
9	Xavier	67.5	1.18	0.95	0.23	56%	19%	36%	48%	48%	21%	33%
10	Georgia Tech	68.3	1.19	0.91	0.27	55%	22%	41%	50%	50%	24%	32%
10	Creighton	63.7	1.14	0.91	0.23	51%	20%	34%	48%	48%	22%	31%
10	Gonzaga	68.1	1.15	0.96	0.19	55%	19%	34%	47%	47%	19%	30%
10	Texas Tech	65.7	1.12	0.96	0.16	51%	17%	29%	52%	52%	23%	36%
11	Stanford	66.8	1.11	0.92	0.18	50%	21%	37%	46%	46%	17%	29%
11	Virginia Commonwealth	65.8	1.15	1	0.15	52%	17%	36%	51%	51%	24%	32%
11	Winthrop	63.1	1.1	0.96	0.14	55%	20%	35%	47%	47%	21%	28%
11	George Washington	67.7	1.05	0.94	0.11	51%	20%	36%	47%	47%	25%	35%
12	Illinois	62.8	1.07	0.85	0.22	50%	21%	38%	46%	46%	23%	30%
12	Arkansas	67.4	1.11	0.89	0.22	52%	22%	35%	47%	47%	20%	33%
12	Old Dominion	67.1	1.08	0.93	0.14	50%	18%	35%	47%	47%	21%	29%
12	Long Beach St.	72	1.1	1.05	0.05	52%	19%	35%	51%	51%	22%	34%

And not to be left out, seeds 13-16

13	Davidson	72.7	1.1	0.96	0.14	49%	25%	39%	45%	45%	26%	31%
13	New Mexico St.	70.6	1.07	0.99	0.09	54%	23%	35%	52%	52%	23%	30%
13	Holy Cross	63.3	1.01	0.93	0.08	51%	19%	27%	49%	49%	21%	34%
13	Albany	64.9	1.03	1.03	0.01	47%	18%	32%	53%	53%	21%	28%
14	Oral Roberts	67.3	1.06	0.97	0.09	49%	23%	35%	47%	47%	23%	33%
14	Miami Oh	59.2	1.04	0.95	0.09	53%	22%	30%	45%	45%	20%	32%
14	Wright St.	63.6	1.04	0.95	0.08	56%	21%	29%	49%	49%	19%	34%
14	Pennsylvania	69.3	1.07	0.99	0.08	54%	22%	34%	53%	53%	22%	32%
15	Texas A&M Corpus Chris	68.9	1.11	1.05	0.05	49%	19%	34%	50%	50%	19%	35%
15	Belmont	67.4	1.04	0.99	0.05	53%	22%	33%	43%	43%	20%	35%
15	Weber St.	66.2	1	1.04	-0.04	48%	23%	32%	48%	48%	22%	38%
15	North Texas	70.2	0.99	1.03	-0.04	50%	24%	33%	49%	49%	26%	35%
16	Niagara	69.3	1.05	1.08	-0.02	48%	22%	31%	49%	49%	19%	32%
16	Central Connecticut	64.6	1.02	1.04	-0.03	47%	22%	35%	50%	50%	20%	37%
16	Eastern Kentucky	62	0.99	1.03	-0.04	51%	21%	30%	54%	54%	27%	45%
16	Florida A&M	68.2	0.98	1.11	-0.13	49%	23%	33%	54%	54%	22%	36%
16	Jackson St.	70.8	0.95	1.12	-0.17	45%	20%	33%	60%	60%	27%	35%