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The tournament is not a referendum

We’ve all seen them because they are prolific. Every year in March come the pronouncements about conference X being better than conference Y because they have more teams in the Sweet 16 or because more teams won their first round game. Certain coaches must be better because they have advanced, others are bad because they lost. Here is a sample tweet to familiarize yourself with the genre.

Missouri (NET 42) just beat Utah St. (NET 18) by 11 in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament.

Utah St. was 18th in the NET despite having as many Quad 1 wins as Quad 4 losses: 2.