I don't think our fans really understand how bad our offense was in the OOC against a pretty meh schedule. We did one really good thing with our scheduling by only including 3 >200 teams. However, we only ended up with 1 <50 team. Then we proceeded to play a bunch of those teams close, got one ok-ish win over Mizzou, got drilled by the only good team we played, and lost to a pair of mediocre (at best) teams. It was a really great schedule for an RPI metric, but no so much for any metric that includes efficiency. I think this team more than made up for it in the league, but the major reason any efficiency metric is in the mid to high 20s is because of our dreadful OOC offense.
So that's the only point I'm making. K-State is not a Top 10 Team. We don't deserve a 1 or 2 seed under any circumstance, or even 3 seed just based upon finishing 14-4 in conference. But anybody looking at this team in conference play the last few months would slate us in the Top 20, yet we're currently ranked 26 in the NET, below dumpster fire Iowa State, based upon games played in December. That's idiotic.
There is a big difference between seeds 3, 4, and 5 in the NCAAs. The 3 has a massive advantage. I'd almost prefer the 6 over the 4/5 line. Winning the Big 12 and a couple of games in the B12T should by all rights get us a 3, but I'm not so sure it will based on NET.