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Message: [QUOTE="oldhusky, post: 3884494, member: 9844"] Over the years, Uconn has often compensated for a weak conference schedule by taking on quite a few of the top schools out of conference. This year we lost a couple of those and added Arkansas back in, so we had fewer legitimate challenges. For the best teams in the Power 5 conferences, their out of conference schedule is more like training camp with many easy opponents as they get the new players ready for the real season for them, the conference schedule and tournament. Our conference results barely move the needle, our ranking year in and year out is based more on our big out of conference games. In the old Big East we had big in conference games, not so much now. But still the BE is overall better than the AAC, but thus far it has resulted in slightly more competitive blowouts than new real challenges. Perhaps with Uconn in, programs like DePaul and Marquette will be able to step up their recruiting and competition a bit in the future. [/QUOTE]