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Message: [QUOTE="Billy Jack, post: 4347376, member: 4173"] I don’t know what you think a P5 conference achieves year in and year out. Neither B1G nor the Pac12 has won a national championship in the past 20 years. Current BE members have won 5 NCs and a 3rd has been to 2 NC games in that same time. Take the top team away from any conference and the conference looks different. By definition most teams are going home early from the tournament. Half are eliminated in the first round and 3/4 by the first weekend. Depth? 5 of the current BE teams have been to the E8 in the past dozen tournaments and 7 have been to the Sweet16. The current conference members have had multiple teams in the Sweet 16 in half of the past dozen tournaments and at least one team in the S16 in 11 of the past 12 tournaments. Just this year, 2 teams in the S16 & 1 in the F4. Two in the S16 last year too. Only 4 teams have not had a season in which they haven’t advanced to the Sweet 16. Only 1 team has failed to make the tournament at all in the past dozen years. It would be nice if you presented actual facts instead of making sweeping generalizations. Start with the PAC12. If they’re P5, the BE easily surpasses them in its accomplishments this century. Without UCLA, what are they? The ACC is a special case. No one has the consistency or the accomplishments by multiple teams that they’ve had. But every other P5 team has its shortcomings. [/QUOTE]