Same carping went on in the early years of the Big East. Other teams in the conference are bad, the Big East only got 2 teams selected this year, they'll never get better, UConn is dooooooooomed.
A little ways down the road the BEast conference was getting 9 teams in and putting 3 teams in the Final Four. That of course has nothing to do with playing the best team(s) year after year and making most teams not named Providence better. No, suddenly the Big East is the BEast, and let's forget about what we were whining about in the past and about how UConn doesn't get enough competition to prep for the Tourney.
This is the Geno effect. The conference will continue to get better. Meanwhile the AAC coaches are using their games against UConn to up their profile, looking to use the games to pull in recruits and prepare for the battles ahead, and foreseeing a time ahead when they have more talented players and can give UConn a battle like Rutgers, ND, and St. John's could muster up in the past.