Best conference?

[Knight78]

My bracket reflected my belief that the Big 12 and ACC are strongest conferences. Ruh roh!!

Well, you're half right. So far the Big 12 is 0-3 but the ACC is 2-0.

 

[Knight78]

The moral of the story is to schedule Kentucky & Duke. Both of those schools will most always win 25+ games and both play a lot of teams that will have good records, too. Doesn't matter if you lose to Duke & Kentucky or even if you play them close.. The games with them will inflate the hell out of your RPI. Oh, and it try to find another team that plays both of those schools and get a game with them too.

Once again, I have to voice my displeasure with the NCAA Selection Committee. How can a team that did not win it's conference regular season AND not win it's conference tournament get a #1 Seed?

 

[WindsorHawk]

Big 12 is 1-3.

Big 10 is 2-1.

Advantage Big 10!

 

[Mademyaccount4u]

I don't think there is a huge difference between the conferences. I thought it was funny that the Big 12 thought they were the best given the lack of quality wins. I would love to have a two game conference schedule, but given that isn't a possibility this gives conferences that have to play these unbalanced schedule, in my opinion, an advantage in the OOC as they have to deal with more styles of play and types of players.

 

[Tierney]

Big 12 is 1-3.

Big 10 is 2-1.

Advantage Big 10!

Purdue folded at the end. It was pretty unusual for a Painter coached team.

 

[docholihawk]

Don't forget the clowns played Lamar in their out of conference schedule which inflated their rpi.

 

[Mademyaccount4u]

At the moment I think that the ACC and B1G look to be the best BB conferences. I thought the big east wasn't terrible, but watching the NC State/Villanova game they don't look great by any means. I would say that the ACC looks real good, but the B1G did win the B1G/ACC challenge and has been the higher number seed in the tourney.

Am I right or blinded by the black and gold light?

 

[StatelineHawk]

RPI has been a joke for a long time now. I do think that the committee is relying on it less and less though, and that is a good thing. I mean none of these teams got rewarded for gaming the system and having an artifically inflated RPI:
#28 Colorado St.
#29 Buffalo
#32 Dayton
#33 Davidson
#34 Temple
#35 Stephen F. Austin
#38 BYU

All of those teams were seeded behind Iowa at a #43 RPI, #39 OSU, #40 NC State, #41 Cincy, #46 Oklahoma St.

RPI is a joke.

 

[eyekwah]

As of Sunday morning the ACC and PAC 12 have done the best in the tourney. It doesn't mean they are necessarily the best conference just yet. Seeding has a lot to do with how teams do in the tourney. The Big Ten teams with the exception of Wisconsin got lower seeds than the Big 12 teams and ACC teams. This is one of the criticism that was talked about regarding the committee. They spend so much time getting the 68 teams identified that it doesn't leave time for better bracketing. At this point I feel the tourney results are more about seeding than who is the best conference.

If you look at the Big Ten all 7 teams that were selected justified being in the tournament. Purdue lost a one pointer to Cincinnati and Indiana lost a close game to Wichita State. Five teams made the round of 32. The Big 12 had 7 teams in the tournament and was 3w-4l after the first round. No other conferences had 7 teams selected. There were reasons that both got 7 teams in the tourney. Ohio State was the first team to play a power 5 team; Az, of the big ten teams. There are going to be more power 5 match ups as we get deeper into the tourney. Even with the match ups ahead the tourney doesn't reflect the entire strength of a conference. There were some pretty bad teams at the bottom of the ACC and Pac 12.

It only takes one round for a conference to crash and burn because of the seeding arrangement.

 

[docholihawk]

I think the Big 12 was over rated, the BIG under rated and the ACC was the best conference.