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Message: [QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 3817512, member: 1673"] This along with another computer generated list is puzzling. That other list holds that the Pac-12 is the fifth best conference, just ahead of the Big East. How does a conference go from being the best to the worst of the P-5 in one season, particularly when many of the teams are ranked high by voters? This is a case where I am inclined to believe the subjective voters over objective algorithms, but why? At one time the Pac-12 was consistently rated the worst of the P-5 due to its relative isolation west of the Rockies. As long as Stanford was the only powerhouse they were not playing enough good teams east of the Rockies to boost their ratings ... or to get the experience they needed to perform well in tournaments. This changed with the influx of good coaches, competition for being the best in conference and expansion of their territory east of the Rockies. I wonder, and this is pure conjecture, if they are "back where they started" for this one year because of Covid. Are they not playing enough teams east of the Rockies, where all the other P-5 powerhouses are located? Otherwise, I just cannot understand how they can be ranked the worst P-5 when they seem to have the most power programs this year. This contrasts with the SEC, now ranked the top P-5, while only SC and perhaps TAMU seem to be high performers. Have they played the most OOC games with other P-5 powerhouses? Once again, pure conjecture. The NET rankings would not suffer as much from a lack of OOC interchange. This could explain why the Pac-12 can suffer in the ranking of conferences, yet its members are doing well with NET. Meanwhile, in our case, DePaul and Villanova are "quality enough" for one of the components and would not influence the other one. Still more conjecture on my part, but the bottom line is what everyone is concluding this season, all the metrics we might otherwise respect are now suspect this particular year. [/QUOTE]

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