Autzen Audibles

It actually should be by Record's, cause there's a bunch of Team's from the BIG 10 that have more losses than our Duck's, but their ranked in the Top 25. It's ridiculous and Annoying as all get go, and need's to go away.

My biggest issue is with how heavily non-conference results factor into the selection process. That's how Arizona can coast through the Pac-12 and get a good seed, and a team like Miami gets screwed out of a one because they weren't healthy during non-conference play. Oregon was hurt by this as well...

You call that "plenty of transparency"? Are you for real? For starters I'm talking about the selection process, nobody has any idea what goes on behind closed doors, and when the chairman of the committee comes out and tell us that they had Oregon as an 11 seed BEFORE BEATING UCLA, there is a serious issue. And as far as the RPI is concerned, what is the formula? WHY is it regarded as the end all be all of judging college basketball?

The RPI is very transparent. It's right there if you look at it. As for the committee behind closed doors, obviously that's not transparent.

It is easy to launch into the committee. But if the selection committee is using the RPI rating system, and apparently weighting schedule heavily and losses to lower rated teams, Oregon was appropriately seeded in the 11 - 12 range. Kentucky didn't even make the tournament. I suspect the Pac 12 representative was fine with lowering Oregon from an 11 to a 12 seed, to keep Oregon out west, playing in San Jose.

In addition to picking the teams and seeding them, the committee attempts to put together match ups that will increase media attention and make the tournament interesting.

I don't necessarily agree with the 12 seeding, however, I'm not going to lose any sleep or bitch about it as doing so accomplishes nothing.

Oregon had a couple of very bad losses that must have influenced the committee: a 52-76 loss to a Stanford team that didn't make the dance, and 53-76 to Colorado when conference seeding was on the line. Losing twice to California(12th seed), and twice to Colorado(10th seed) didn't help.

I have no problem with where Oregon was seeded or how the selection committee does things. Like you said, RPI is a big part of seeding but they also have to balance out the regions which can prove to more difficult than you think. Oregon made their own bed towards the end of the season so we have no one to blame but ourselves for where we are seeded. Beating a UCLA team without their big man doesn't do much for me and doesn't sound like it did much for the comittee either.

With that being said, we seem to have our mojo back and think we may get a couple wins if our guard play is strong.

Plus UO is ranked 25th in the AP. 25 divided by 4 is 6.25 or a 6/7 seed. Oregon got shafted, plain and simple. It's impossible to defend the selection committee here.

If Washington beats us in the first round of the Pac-12 tourney, we would probably not even be in the tourney. Just think about that. How you close out the season the last 6 weeks is looked at closely when seeding.

Stolen from GoDucksScott on eDuck

Final AP rank vs seed

1- Gonzaga - 1 seed
2- Louisville - 1 seed
3- Kansas - 1 seed
4- Indiana - 1 seed
5- Miami - 2 seed
6- Duke - 2 seed
7- Ohio St - 2 seed
8- Georgetown - 2 seed
9- Michigan St - 3 seed
10- Michigan - 4 seed
10- New Mexico - 3 seed
12- Kansas St - 4 seed
13- St Louis - 4 seed
14- Florida - 3 seed
15- Marquette - 3 seed
16- Syracuse - 4 seed
17- Oklahoma St - 5 seed
18- Wisconsin - 5 seed
19- Memphis - 6 seed
20- Pitt - 8 seed
21- Arizona - 6 seed
22- Creighton - 7 seed
23- Notre Dame - 7 seed
24- UCLA - 6 seed
25- Oregon - 12 seed
26- VCU - 5 seed
27- N Carolina - 8 seed
28- UNLV - 5 seed
29- Butler - 6 seed

The 2 teams ranked around us in the final AP poll have a COMBINED seed better than ours...WTF!!!

Don't lose to Stanford and Colorado by 20 and I'm sure we are much higher. Our games were borderline unwatchable until the last two. We were literally a loss to Washington to not even making it. Be glad we pulled it together when we did and quit trying so hard to complain about everything.

You keep stating that we almost lost to washington, but we didn't , its a win, so that part is irrelevant. I understand the rest of our losses, but other teams lost as well.

yes we have to beat every team anyways, but that doesnt mean all this isn't bs.

You should not try defending what cannot be defended -- the numbers correlating ranking and seeding are damning; we are so far outside the standard deviation it is incomprehensible. Yes, we played several poor games, but virtually every team above us and below us did as well. Utah was the only "bad loss" as defined by the bracketologists, most of the other teams around us had at least 3 or 4. In two of the mentioned "unsightly" losses, we lost to two NCAA tourney teams by only one point. In the meantime,

* We beat a 5 seed
* We beat one 6 seed once (only time played) and another 6 seed twice.
* We beat a decent if not great Doog team (with as much talent as the Ducks) three times
* Finished tied for second in a power conference
* Won the Pac-12 tournament
* Finished in the Top 25 in both major polls.

What did the coaches and sportswriters see that the committee did not? Hard to know, but it is obvious that the Committee ignored the Pac 12 tournament and lifted their ears and eyes only because they has to give out an automatic bid.

It is over and done with now, but do not give those idiots a free pass.