Originally posted by Mr. Obvious
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28 wins earned a 7 seed despite only 1 at-large quality team on the non-con schedule.
27 wins earned a 5 seed by having 4 at-large quality teams on the non-con schedule.
26 wins earned a 9 seed despite only 1 at-large quality team on the non-con schedule.
24 wins earned an 11 seed despite a total flop in the non-con and the weakest MVC in over a decade.
Nov/Dec tourneys make it much easier these days to get a couple of quality opponents in the non-con. There is no reason WSU shouldn't be able to keep the non-con fairly respectable year-in-year-out.
The formula is easy
1) Play a few decent non-con games.
2) Beat the garbage teams you inevitably have to face (non-con and MVC alike)
3) Split (or better) in the dozen or so top 100 games you get to play.
4) Go dancing every year.
Really good years you win more than 50% of your toughest dozen games and you get a nice high single digit seed.
Average years you split the toughest dozen games and possibly go to the 8vs9 game round 1.
Down years, or years riddled with injuries, even just winning 1/3rd of your toughest games will likely get you on the bubble. In 2016, it was enough to get the Shox in.
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