The "no 13-7 major conference team was left out" comment should be a 6-alarm fire for the conference and its national perception.
Right.
It shows, at the very least, that the football first mindset may well still be running everything.
How else would you categorize the BE as something less than a "major conference" when its members have won more basketball titles (7) than any other league in the last 25 years, other than the ACC (whose 9 titles include 2 during the time of the Afro and African American Studies cheating at uNC)? The B1G has one, the Big 12 has 3 and the SEC has 3.
Note: I counted UConn's title while a second year member of the AAC as a BE title because we're back in the BE and won in 2014 with a roster largely comprised of BE recruits, including our most important players: Napier, Boatright, Olander, Giffey and Daniels.