Um, so Prairie View was an NCAA material team? And Miss St. just went down to the American's USF, but the MSU Bulldogs previously beat the NCAA teams Georgia and Vanderbilt. So just what are you trying to say? That just because the American teams aren't in your ACC that they aren't worthy? Just clueless.
Dobbs, you could reply to someone without the insults, you know.
I'm not sure what you're arguing. Are you arguing that Miss St. is dance-worthy because during the regular season they beat 2 teams (Georgia and Vanderbilt) that just barely made the bubble? Miss St. went 5-11 in the SEC. Has any team in a Power Conference ever gone 6 games under .500 in conference yet made the tourney as an at-large team?
Or are you arguing that automatic qualifiers are not dance-worthy?
Or are you arguing that teams like USF and Rutgers, which were narrowly on the wrong side of the bubble would have had success in the NCAA tourney (because they have had success in the NIT)? As bubble teams, they would have had to face higher ranked teams than automatic qualifiers like Prairie View. The teams they have defeated thus far did have nearly the resumes of the bubble teams. For example, see
HERE. This guy ranks teams with his program to see if they will get an at-large bid. He's not perfect, but he does very well. He actually had Rutgers and Bowling Green getting instead of St. Joseph's and Florida. But the 6 teams defeated by Rutgers and USF thus far are ranked by him accordingly:
56th George Washington
63rd Stetson
76th Harvard
105th NC A&T
115th Delaware
121st Seton Hall
Are you arguing that these teams are similar in quality to the teams they would have had to beat as at-large bubble entries? Their Sagarin ratings are (in order): 77th, 76th, 108th, 124th, 102nd, and 100th.
I would argue that the AAC has 2 elite (FF-caliber) teams this year, 2 teams that were bubble teams, and the rest of the conference was pretty bad. The ACC had 1 elite team, a couple more top 10 teams, and several more ranked 11th-30th (NCAA tourney teams).
