The "Weak" Big 12

[CatMission]

Top 3 seeded teams

Big 12 -- ku 1, A&M 3, UT 4
ACC -- UNC 1, Maryland 4, Virginia 4
SEC -- Fla 1, Tenn 5, Vandy 6
B10 -- OSU 1, Wisc 2, Indiana 7
Big East -- G'Town 2, Pitt 3, ND 6
Pac 10 -- UCLA 2, Oregon 3 Wash St 3

How can everyone keep telling us how bad the Big 12 is, yet the best teams are rewarded?
 

[fatty fat fat]

Great post.

[cireksu]

We're a football confrence

[hemmy]

Digger Phelps feels our pain

And he agrees with this post

[soccerlord]

And we are the powerhouse of that conference. Rutgers was a fluke.

[chum1]

It's like when when the Big East and ACC were not very strong in football.  Miami and FSU often benefited in the late season rankings because they beat up on their relatively weaker conferences regardless of how they compared with the strongest teams from the strongest conferences.

[opcat]

Wooldridge sched fu**ed us up.

[michigancat]

                                                        Average      Avg Non-Conf      Average       Rankings of Members
Rnk Conference                           W-L   Pct    Overall RPI     SOS (Rank)     Non-Conf RPI    Hi   Lo  Avg Median
 15 West Coast Conference               48-67 .417       .4922        .5363 ( 1)      .5060 (13)     60  279  173  171
  2 Southeastern Conference            127-38 .770       .5814        .5291 ( 2)      .5789 ( 1)      6  114   55   53
 12 Horizon League                      55-58 .487       .5047        .5174 ( 3)      .5162 (10)     27  264  154  170
 32 Southwestern Athletic Conference    13-83 .135       .4193        .5169 ( 4)      .4226 (32)    168  334  278  287
  6 Missouri Valley Conference          79-32 .712       .5583        .5161 ( 5)      .5659 ( 4)      7  139   80   92
  4 Big Ten Conference                 116-38 .753       .5693        .5151 ( 6)      .5620 ( 5)      1  199   76   44
  3 Pac 10 Conference                   90-26 .776       .5699        .5143 ( 7)      .5671 ( 3)      2  221   75   52
  1 Atlantic Coast Conference          132-33 .800       .5817        .5142 ( 8 )     .5741 ( 2)      3  157   55   43
 13 Colonial Athletic Association       66-69 .489       .5017        .5142 ( 9)      .5095 (12)     39  306  163  170
 10 Atlantic 10 Conference              98-83 .541       .5145        .5120 (10)      .5139 (11)     33  278  142  108

 25 Ohio Valley Conference              23-68 .253       .4538        .5107 (11)      .4517 (26)    117  317  230  260
 14 Mid American Conference             72-85 .459       .4924        .5073 (12)      .4936 (15)     67  301  175  188
  9 Western Athletic Conference         68-51 .571       .5235        .5070 (13)      .5235 ( 9)     23  305  131   98
  5 Big East Conference                159-54 .746       .5589        .5033 (14)      .5455 ( 7)      5  215   84   62
 19 Southern Conference                 41-63 .394       .4762        .5029 (15)      .4877 (16)     49  308  202  219
  7 Big XII Conference                 119-40 .748       .5566        .4978 (16)      .5491 ( 6)     11  237   85   74



This is why people perceive the Big XII to be weak.

[Cat Maniac]

Ricardo Patton's revenge.