best ncaa basketball conference?

[mofome]

who is it

[imgv94]

Pac-10

[Wrigley]

No dominant conference this year, I need more time to decide

[imgv94]

UCLA
WASH ST
USC
STANFORD
ARIZONA ST
CAL
ARIZONA
OREGON


Eight extremely solid teams.. USC is considered maybe the fourth best team in conf, and they played toe to toe with Kansas and Memphis.

WASH is pretty good too.
Oregon St is a rag.

[zerocage]

Big 12 , ACC , Pac - 10 all tied

[Junkyard Dog]

pac 10 & big east are the deepest

[rjt721]

Big 12 , ACC , Pac - 10 all tied

ACC? That conference is horrible this year.

1. Pac-10
2. Big East
3. Big 12
4. Big 10

[Deuce]

Pac 10
Big 12
Big East
ACC
Big 10

[NEP Dynasty]

Pac 10 or Big East

[TexansFan]

According to the current RPI the ACC is.

http://kenpom.com/confrank.php

[Wrigley]

According to the current RPI the ACC is.

http://kenpom.com/confrank.php

Thats kind of a surprise

[donjuan]

Sagarin has Pac 10 #1. RPI is pretty silly.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/bkc0708.htm?loc=interstitialskip

[TexansFan]

Sagarin has Pac 10 #1. RPI is pretty silly.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagar...terstitialskip

Couldn't I just turn it around and say Sagarin is pretty silly?

[donjuan]

Sagarin isn't great but it sure beats the hell out of RPI.

[TexansFan]

It couldn't be all that bad if it's used by the NCAA.

The Rating Percentage Index (RPI) was created in 1981 to provide supplemental data for the Division I Men’s Basketball Committee in its evaluation of teams for at-large selection and seeding of the championship bracket.

[donjuan]

It couldn't be all that bad if it's used by the NCAA.

Is that meant to be taken seriously or is it some kind of bizarro level?

[stump]

big east

[TexansFan]

Is that meant to be taken seriously or is it some kind of bizarro level?

Take it for what you want, who really cares. Is Sagarin a relative of yours?

[donjuan]

Do you really struggle with reading comprehension this much normally? I've already said I don't think Sagarin is that great but it still takes a massive dump in RPI's coffee. RPI is complete garbage. When your level of reasoning is "the NCAA uses it so it must be great", you should probably just end it all.

[Wheell]

Overall the Big East's best 10 teams are better than anyone else's ten best, but in terms of teams that are legit threats to win the title, I'd go with the ACC or Big 12.

[TexansFan]

Do you really struggle with reading comprehension this much normally? I've already said I don't think Sagarin is that great but it still takes a massive dump in RPI's coffee. RPI is complete garbage. When your level of reasoning is "the NCAA uses it so it must be great", you should probably just end it all.

Well if you say so then it must be. Sitting behind your computer makes you an expert.

[BigOrangeTitans]

state of tennessee

[Charger42]

im with Wheel, ACC and big 12 have the teams to go far in the bracket. Even the bottom tier big 12 teams have the talent to go far.

[imgv94]

Overall the Big East's best 10 teams are better than anyone else's ten best, but in terms of teams that are legit threats to win the title, I'd go with the ACC or Big 12.

[Wheell]

IMGV: And whom would you suggest? I respect Kansas, Memphis, Duke, UNC, UCLA, and a few other teams as legit title threats, but what conference would you say has a better chance of taking home the title? Pac 10? SEC? Big 10?

[donjuan]

Well if you say so then it must be. Sitting behind your computer makes you an expert.

Hopefully you took my advice, but on the off chance you didn't, are you aware of what the RPI is composed of?

[LT Profits]

I am anti-Pac 10 myself, as they just did not impress me for the most part out of conference. Then again, it is hard to impress when your conference plays the 20th toughest non-conference schedule in the nation. By comparison, the ACC was 6th in non-conf SOS, Big East was 9th and Big 12 was 12th.

Now this may be hard for me to admit, but I actually side with Don Juan in that I agree that Sagarin is much more useful than RPI. Still, the fact that Sagarin graded out the Pac-10 as the best is a real headscratcher to me.

As for my own personal rankings:

1 - ACC
2 - Big East
3 - Big 12
4 - SEC
5 - Pac 10
6 - Missouri Valley (although I wouldn't be surprised if the MVC has more Sweet Sixteen teams than the Pac 10)

[jjgold]

PAC 10 by far

[Louisvillekid1]

Big East, Pac 10 is so overrated. . . Those teams will all flake out by the end of the year, except for UCLA.

[Willie Bee]

No matter which rankings you want to use, they're all flaky right now and will be until we get at least another week or two into the conference schedules. No single poll/ranking can be used as the be all to end all arguments.

My feeling is the PAC-10 and Big East might be a little better eight teams deep, but that the Big 12 and ACC are better 3-4 teams deep. Having said that, I'm sure now that the Finals will find an SEC team meeting a team from the Big Ten

[Red_Sux]

not big-10

[aszzzbrokerman]

ACC is the best in terms of competition played so far and success of results. Thats all that RPI is saying. Ill tell you something, you hardly ever see a highly ranked rpi team lose big. So RPI is good finding who will always have a chance to win.