[Zebra_Fact_Man]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

Here's a hypothetical for the doubters. And I'd appreciate it if you'd actually really consider it. If this exact same situation happened, but the team in question was team 5592 or 30XX or something, would we still be having an argument over them sandbagging their way to the #1 seed? Or would we have accepted the explanation that they thought they were broken and noncompetitive, but managed to pull off some highly impressive repairs over lunch?

Here's another one: the low numbered team in question is instead picked up by the 5 or 6 seed (in similar fashion), performs well, but loosed in the first round?