ChooChooCat wrote:azcat49 wrote:Tanner said that having a sub .500 record in conference was an important factor.
Amazing how different the basketball committee is compared to the baseball committee in this regard.
That's exactly what I was thinking! Arizona State gets in the NCAA men's basketball tournament despite a horrible showing in league play, but they had some nice wins early (Kansas, etc.). Apparently, the baseball committee thinks that league record is important, that's why Washington got in and not Arizona (better pac-12 record and head to head series sweep). Arizona was 5-4 against the big 3 in the Pac-12 (all at home), but had several bad road series losses.
I guess the Wildcats can't complain too much, although I think they still should have been in (33rd in ISR). Ironically enough, the team that really got screwed was Kentucky (32 RPI, 28 ISR). Hard to believe I'm saying that about an SEC team, but they must have also had a losing record in conference.