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With its famously weak lineup of teams this year, the AAC is still making its mark in the Sagarin ratings, with not only the top rated team in UConn but three other teams -- USF, East Carolina, and Tulane -- rated in the top 40. UConn and USF also have played the top two SOS so far, and the 11 conference team's average SOS ranking is 142.2. That's not spectacular, but it should be enough to keep the AAC as the 6th rated conference through the regular season. Besides the top two teams, Cincinnati has also played a top 100 schdule at 68, while UCF at 273 and Houston at 334 are in the bottom 100.
The rigors of both OOC and conference SOS are supposed to feature heavily in a conference's success in the Tourney. Currently of course the AAC has the top all-time Tourney winning percentage at 90%, but it is based on only one year's play and includes a now departed team. Among the P5 conferences in the 2010s, the PAC has by far the best Tourney winning percentage at 71.1%, followed by the SEC at 62.5%, the ACC at 60.1%, the B12 at 56.4% and the woeful B10 at a losing 46.7%. Though the B12 has the next to worst winning percentage in the Tourney during the last 5 years, it did claim two NCs with Baylor in 2012 and the now-departed Texas A&M in 2011, and it has sometimes been rated with the toughest conference SOS in recent years. Conference winning percentage during the period does not correlate very well with regular season ratings, but proponents of the "tough conference games make you ready" theory could likely reasonably cite stats to show that is so, especially if the focus is put on the B10.
The current P5 conference SOS rank averages probably reflect the concerns of two conferences whose in-house slates are generally rated pretty poorly and whose teams feel they need to get some OOC grit. The B10 has the top ranking average at 125.0, and the PAC is right behind at 125.7. Two conferences whose teams likely feel they get eaten up in conference play have terrible averages, with the SEC the worst at 203.1 and the B12 a fraction better at 202.8. The ACC teams generally play a more reasonable OOC and they are averaging a little worse than the AAC at 146.0.
A listing of P5 teams that have played OOC schedules in the bottom 100 of 349 teams so far include many of the usual suspects, but also at least two surprises UTenn and Texas A&M, plus an undefeated Georgia team that has the 101st worst SOS. The teams include: OK State (346), Miami (322), Wake Forest (321), Indiana (316), VA Tech (307), Arizona (302), OR State (300), Auburn (284), Florida (283), Tennessee (281), Texas A&M (276), undefeated Northwestern (275), Mississippi (271), MS State (265), KS State (256), TCU (251). Oregon State has not yet played a road game, and five of the teams have played just one game away.
Some of there teams like UTenn (hosting Stanford soon) still have a tester in OOC games, and once conference play starts they will presumably get their diet of grits. Maybe it will make them ready for Tourney play. Hard to say.
The rigors of both OOC and conference SOS are supposed to feature heavily in a conference's success in the Tourney. Currently of course the AAC has the top all-time Tourney winning percentage at 90%, but it is based on only one year's play and includes a now departed team. Among the P5 conferences in the 2010s, the PAC has by far the best Tourney winning percentage at 71.1%, followed by the SEC at 62.5%, the ACC at 60.1%, the B12 at 56.4% and the woeful B10 at a losing 46.7%. Though the B12 has the next to worst winning percentage in the Tourney during the last 5 years, it did claim two NCs with Baylor in 2012 and the now-departed Texas A&M in 2011, and it has sometimes been rated with the toughest conference SOS in recent years. Conference winning percentage during the period does not correlate very well with regular season ratings, but proponents of the "tough conference games make you ready" theory could likely reasonably cite stats to show that is so, especially if the focus is put on the B10.
The current P5 conference SOS rank averages probably reflect the concerns of two conferences whose in-house slates are generally rated pretty poorly and whose teams feel they need to get some OOC grit. The B10 has the top ranking average at 125.0, and the PAC is right behind at 125.7. Two conferences whose teams likely feel they get eaten up in conference play have terrible averages, with the SEC the worst at 203.1 and the B12 a fraction better at 202.8. The ACC teams generally play a more reasonable OOC and they are averaging a little worse than the AAC at 146.0.
A listing of P5 teams that have played OOC schedules in the bottom 100 of 349 teams so far include many of the usual suspects, but also at least two surprises UTenn and Texas A&M, plus an undefeated Georgia team that has the 101st worst SOS. The teams include: OK State (346), Miami (322), Wake Forest (321), Indiana (316), VA Tech (307), Arizona (302), OR State (300), Auburn (284), Florida (283), Tennessee (281), Texas A&M (276), undefeated Northwestern (275), Mississippi (271), MS State (265), KS State (256), TCU (251). Oregon State has not yet played a road game, and five of the teams have played just one game away.
Some of there teams like UTenn (hosting Stanford soon) still have a tester in OOC games, and once conference play starts they will presumably get their diet of grits. Maybe it will make them ready for Tourney play. Hard to say.