[QUOTE=lroberts;482895]The Big 10 venues are much harder to play in those football crazy SEC gyms, not to mention we play basketball at a much higher level from top to bottom. The atmosphere in those buildings gives much more of a homecourt advantage.

Arkansas RPI #100 - Michigan RPI #11, Arkansas finishes 10th in the SEC, Michigan ties for the Big Ten Regular Season Title. Michigan travels to Arkansas. Arkansas beats Michigan and sends them back to Ann Arbor looking for Chris Webber. It is a dang good thing Arkansas is a "Football Cracy SEC Gym" because if the SEC ever added Basketball to their Universities, Michigan would have needed the entire Fab 5.

I know you are going to say, it just proves that on any day anybody can beat anybody. Parity is all across College Basketball. The top 5 conferences are seperated by less than 1.5 points in the RPI. But there is ONLY 1 team in America that has not had a Bad Loss on their schedule. I consider a Bad Loss as a Blowout loss or a Home Loss. Syracuse was blown out at Notre Dame, Kansas was blown out by Missouri and then was getting blown out by Missouri at Kansas when they came back and won the game in OT, North Carolina was blown out at Florida State plus lost at Home to Duke blowing a double digit lead. Duke lost at home to Florida State and was blown out by North Carolina. Michigan State lost at home to Ohio State, Ohio State lost at home to Michigan State and Wisconsin. Pick a contender and you will find a Bad Loss on their record, EXCEPT Kentucky. Kentucky won every home game, dominated the 4th best Conference by winning 13 of 16 games by 9 points or more. If losing to Indiana at Indiana is a Bad Loss, then Indiana is not that good. Indiana is pretty good for they finished 5th in the best conference in America and will be seeded as a #4 or #5 in the Big Dance. I will take my chances with the Favorite and that is Kentucky. I believe there is only 1 team in America that has a chance to beat them if everyone plays up to their potential and that is North Carolina. The only reason is Carolina's point guard is better than Kentucky's point guard. But, the next 6 players are advantage Kentucky - not by much but still advantage Kentucky