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Only conference with 5 teams in the Top 25.

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AP top 25 by conference: American - 5; ACC, Big Ten - 4; Big 12 - 3; Big East, Mountain West, Atlantic-10 - 2; SEC, Missouri Valley - 1

Best MBB conference in the nation? Best WBB confernce in the nation?

Women's basketball is suffering major losses next season. Ironically, women's basketball will be impacted more than football and men's basketball when Louisville and Rutgers depart. SMU really needs to step it up there.

5 from the American is not at all surprising to me.

I am more surprised that there is only 1 SEC team in the final AP Top 25 (albeit a very good one).

Perhaps the AAC model works against some of these "Power" conferences. While they just beat each other up week to week and hurt each others chances, we have a clear upper and lower class that allows half of our teams into the top 25.

Why don't we get more respect as a conference?

There is no reason why commentators should say the Big 10 or Big 12 are the best!

Dallashoops22 wrote:Why don't we get more respect as a conference?

There is no reason why commentators should say the Big 10 or Big 12 are the best!

It's because our bottom five don't hold up. The bottom half of the Big 12 would wax the AAC bottom five. With TCU being the exception

still quite the site to see after all that time spent in CUSA

and thank god we didn't go into the mountain west like some one this board wished.

Dallashoops22 wrote:Why don't we get more respect as a conference?

There is no reason why commentators should say the Big 10 or Big 12 are the best!

Big 12 is clearly the best. I'm not saying that as a homer as I wish great death to the conference. The AAC just has such wide separation between the top 5 and the rest, "top 5" gets to rack up W's.

bubba pony wrote:and thank god we didn't go into the mountain west like some one this board wished.

I am glad we did not go to the MWC either.

ponyte wrote:Best MBB conference in the nation? Best WBB confernce in the nation?

Sure seems that way this year, although ACC in Men's is very strong in my opinion as well.

LA_Mustang wrote:

Dallashoops22 wrote:Why don't we get more respect as a conference?

There is no reason why commentators should say the Big 10 or Big 12 are the best!

It's because our bottom five don't hold up. The bottom half of the Big 12 would wax the AAC bottom five. With TCU being the exception

I don't know if that is true. UCF, Temple and Houston could all hang with the bottom half of the Big 12 in my opinion.

There will be one more poll though right after all the conference tournaments?

Meaning this is not the final poll, we need to beat Houston to hang on one more week I would think to be ranked in the final poll.

shadowman wrote:There will be one more poll though right after all the conference tournaments?

Meaning this is not the final poll, we need to beat Houston to hang on one more week I would think to be ranked in the final poll.

Or win the conference tourney. Nothing wrong with that is there?


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