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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 3884638, member: 730"] And there are probably a dozen mid-majors with competitive tournaments. I wish the BE women's tournament was as exciting as the Men's. MSG rocks for those games. The best basketball I ever witnessed. But you dance with the one you came with. :oops: But the BE can compete if their willing to pay top coaches (and assistant coaches) as they do for the men. After doing that they can point out to elite players that at XXX basketball is the prime sport. At (P-5) it's football football football". I think the point being made was that in several years UConn's conference may not only deep but the top of the BE was clearly above any of the P-5 conferences. There were years when if the rankings were an honest comparison then UConn would have been No 1 and the next team would have been listed No 3. That's when threads about conference strength sprout up on boards like crabgrass pushing through a sidewalk. :rolleyes: Sorry to rant but I've been listening to how much better conference XXX is than the BE/AAC for 25 years. It always coincides with the apparent rise of the UConn program over the rest of the country. Marquette was the AP 26 and Massey 30 and UConn beat them as bad as they beat No 200+ SMU the last 7 years. I say look out for UConn. [/QUOTE]