UW is VERY good, I said myself I think they can make the 8 and maybe the 4 if things go right.
But looking at their schedule looking at big wins they have Utah, Oklahoma and Alabama(all at home) in close games. They lost to Gonzaga(road game), close wins over LMU and NC State, lost to UCLA (blew a huge lead), got blown out by 17 against Oregon State, and lost by 10 at Stanford AFTER Grunfeld got hurt.
So they are a great team but I guess I'm just seeing most of the big wins balance out with surprising losses. I just didn't have them pegged a #1 seed I thought #2 at best. They haven't gone on the road and beaten a good team but I guess you can probably say that about just about anybody this year.
Of course I had no idea how close UCLA was to not making it after the OSU loss, if you realize many of the 12-16 seeds are automatic bid winners, being an 11 seed is pretty hairy. I thought they'd get about an 8-9 even with the stinker to OSU in the tourney.