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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 3317117, member: 1329"] I get your point about the less than enthusiastic respect from the committee towards the AAC, but consider that Temple was actually tied for 3rd and had a worse overall record and computer metrics (so you could consider them 4th, but they won a random tiebreaker with UCF to get the 3rd seed), and did not beat a single at large team in the non-conference last year. They beat one team that went to the NIT in OT. And they only won 2 games against tournament teams in conference play. There's no respect, and there's not really winning a lot of big games. KenPom is currently projecting the league to be about as strong as it was last year. We'll see if that's true. But Memphis, UConn, Wichita, and USF were going to jump up within their tier (if not jump up to a higher one), with Houston, Temple and UCF (dropping two tiers) worse. [TABLE] [TR] [TH]Tiers[/TH] [TH]2019[/TH] [TH]2020[/TH] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Tier A (0-50)[/TD] [TD]Houston, Cincy, UCF[/TD] [TD]Cincy, Houston, Memphis[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Tier B (50-100)[/TD] [TD]Temple, Memphis, Wichita St, USF,[/TD] [TD]Wichita St, UConn, Temple. USF, SMU[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Tier C (100-200)[/TD] [TD]UConn (tier B when healthy), Tulsa, SMU[/TD] [TD]Tulsa, UCF[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Tier D (200-350)[/TD] [TD]East Carolina, Tulane[/TD] [TD]East Carolina, Tulane[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] For conference strength, a lot riding on whether SMU and Temple are respectable and how good Memphis is. SMU has a chance to quit on Jankovich, and Temple has a new coach with minimal experience. If UCF can somehow salvage Tier B status thanks to defensive system and the rest of the things don't go worse case scenario, the league should be better. [B]Edit - [/B]USF dropped 16 spots in KenPom because of this injury. [/QUOTE]

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