"We look at the entire body of work," said Rasmussen, the athletic director at Creighton who is in his first year chairing the selection committee. "So we look at all the games. The games in November, December count the same as the games in February and March. And Oklahoma had six wins against top 35 RPI [teams]. They had some absolutely great wins. We know that they stumbled down the stretch, and that certainly affected their seeding, but they had enough on their resume to get in."