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Message: [QUOTE="Jonathan14, post: 5171812, member: 11087"] Could it be related to the concentration of talent at the top due to the ease of transfer through the portal? Taking the Big East as an example, previously competitive teams lost some of their better players to the portal (e.g., Villanova: Olsen to Iowa, Dalce to MD; Marquette: Karlen to ND, Hare to Iowa State), so the top teams get stronger, and the teams that had been just outside the top 25 get weaker. (Though I'll admit neither Iowa nor Iowa State is looking particularly strong right now...but Villanova and Marquette are comparatively weaker than last season.) [/QUOTE]