I was surprised that St. Mary's didn't get in. They gave them no benefit of the doubt for the Mills injury, when they have the latitidue to do so... it appears they purely looked at there wins and victories... and if that was the case then yes they did not deserve to be in the tournament, It also would have helped if they had been blown out by 30 by Gonzaga right before the tournament... for a team that has only played 2 good teams all year, they have to get viewed subjectively, and getting destroyed on a neutral court isn't going to help your resume.
Personally, I think Wisconsin had no right in this tournament, wow they beat 4 decent Big Ten teams with skewed RPI's... out of 14 games, big deal. Arizona deserved to get in ahead of them. All of Maryland, Wisconsin and Arizona played respectil out of conference slates, so its fair enough that they got in, although I would have preferred they gave the benefit of the doubt to San Diego St and St. Mary's.
The funny thing is that the peope that are bashing Arizona for there inclusion over a mid-major, are even more pissed because of a "favourable" matchup. Seems hypocrtical to me, because Utah is not in a big conference, therefore there not better then say FSU. Utah is better then an offensively inept team like Illinois.
At least teams like Providence and Penn St who were basically .500 in power conferences were excluded because of there bad out of conference schedule.
