With Simien out, Kansas still won the Big 12, beat Texas and won one more game in the tournament than Texas. Also, Texas was beat by Tech (who is not in the Big Dance) and Kansas lost to Missouri who almost beat Oklahoma(who is a #1 seed). True that Kansas has very little depth but that shouldn't give Texas the #1 seed over Kansas.
I agree with you, an argument could definitely be made. It's semantics though. There's not much difference between a 1 and 2 seed.
From
http://www.kenpom.com/rpi.html
RPI Rankings:
rank-team----(record)-rpi-(strength of schedule)-sos rank
1 Kentucky---(29- 3)--.6596-------(.5774)-----15
2 Arizona-----(25- 3)--.6489------(.5675)------30
3 Oklahoma--(24- 6)--.6471------(.5961)-------3
4 Texas-------(22- 6)--.6434------(.5960)-------4
5 Georgia-----(19- 8)--.6352------(.6123)-------1
6 Kansas-----(23- 7)--.6351------(.5913)-------6
nonconference:(record)-RPI-(Rank)
1 Kentucky---(10-3)--.5940----(38)
2 Arizona-----(8-1)--.6867----(1)
3 Oklahoma--(9-2)--.6268----(14)
4 Texas-------(9-2)--.6351----(9)
5 Georgia-----8-3)--.6520----(4)
6 Kansas-----(8-4)--.6034----(31)
Texas and OU beat Kansas in RPI, SOS, NonConf. record, and overall win percentage. KS may have 1 more win than Texas, but they also have 1 more loss. All of TX losses were to teams ranked in the top 50 RPI, while KS has one loss to a team outside the top 50.
The committee made the right call in TX over KS. Sorry.