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Message: [QUOTE="ScottVib, post: 4946046, member: 694"] It always seems to be en vogue to use the NCAA tournament to compare the conferences so some random stats since the COVID shutdown: First Total Bids: 32 - Big Ten 28 - Big XII, SEC 22 - ACC 18 - Big East 16 - Mountain West, Pac-12 9 - WCC 8 - American 7 - A-10 5 - Missouri Valley 4 - Everyone but the Ivy League (who sat out 2021) Total Units Earned: (Each win until you reach the Final Four earns a unit, meaning we already have this year's total units earned) 64 - Big XII, Big Ten 58 - ACC 57 - SEC 47 - Big East 43 - Pac-12 24 - Mountain West 22 - WCC This of course lends itself to the narratives about the power conference's strength, etc Units Above Expectation --- So this is the comparison of units earned to the number of units expected based on the conference's seeds. Teams in Play-Ins get 0.5 units expected, as the winner of the play-in games earn units. Most of the time conferences are pretty close and obviously putting more teams in the tournament puts you more at risk, particularly if you have a lot of high seeds: +13.5 - ACC +5.5 - Pac-12 (mostly in 2021) +5 - C-USA (thanks FAU) +3 - Ivy, MAAC +2 - A-10, Big East, Summit, WAC //// 19 conferences between -1 and +1.5 -2 - WCC -12.5 - Big Ten (+1 this year; their first positive in the last four) -13.5 - SEC (-4 this year, have never been above expectations) -16 - Big XII (-7 this year; Kansas' title run in 2022 is the only time they broke even, every other year they've been at least 4 units (wins) under expectations) [/QUOTE]

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