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[QUOTE="hank970, post: 3970112, member: 6349"]
True, but then I was responding to a post which stated that, "The AAC's biggest issue is that the bottom 4 or 5 teams continually drag the conference down."  The more overarching title of the thread notwithstanding, that particular post referred only to a small cohort, not the AAC's strength relative to the larger cohort of other conferences.

The overall strength of a conference may confer an advantage to its front-runner if in-conference competition is more rigorous and better prepares it for the NCAA tournament.  Were Houston's NCAA bid and performance in the tournament adversely impacted because some of its conference mates supposedly dragged the AAC down?  I doubt it.   Could the AAC improve its overall standing relative to other conferences?  Absolutely.  And how about the New Big East?  Has it reached some pinnacle of performance that's the envy of college sports?  Hardly.

UConn is perhaps in a good place as regards hoops.  In football, it's at the bottom of the pecking order with little to no hope of ever climbing out.  Meanwhile, three of its former AAC conference mates were ranked in the top 25 last year.
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