Fair notice to the PAC 10 (hoops)

External Since: Oct 04, 2004 Posts: 8

It's early, and this will probably change. But if it doesn't change,
you lose major conference status. *Neener*. Can you say "mid major"?
I knew you could. From Sagarin:

CONFERENCE CENTRAL MEAN SIMPLE AVERAGE TEAMS

1 ATLANTIC COAST = 83.85 83.93 ( 1) 12
2 SOUTHEASTERN = 82.91 82.91 ( 2) 12
3 BIG TEN = 81.90 81.64 ( 3) 11
4 BIG 12 = 81.64 81.53 ( 4) 12
5 BIG EAST = 80.68 81.22 ( 5) 16
6 MISSOURI VALLEY = 79.91 79.63 ( 7) 10
--------------- Ding-dong-the-Pacific-witch-is-dead -------------
7 MOUNTAIN WEST = 79.89 79.71 ( 6) 9
8 PACIFIC-10 = 78.37 78.55 ( 8) 10

The Big East shouldn't be resting on its laurels either. Dangnabbit I
cannot believe we took in Miami and VT. Maybe VT will hold up. We can
always hope.

Unfortunately for the ACC, a lot of that is the early seeding. If I
have to eat my words, I'll just dissolve them in gin.

--Tedward

External Since: Jan 06, 2005 Posts: 12

Edward M. Kennedy wrote:

>It's early, and this will probably change. But if it doesn't change,
>you lose major conference status. *Neener*. Can you say "mid major"?
>I knew you could. From Sagarin:
>
> CONFERENCE CENTRAL MEAN SIMPLE AVERAGE TEAMS
>
> 1 ATLANTIC COAST = 83.85 83.93 ( 1) 12
> 2 SOUTHEASTERN = 82.91 82.91 ( 2) 12
> 3 BIG TEN = 81.90 81.64 ( 3) 11
> 4 BIG 12 = 81.64 81.53 ( 4) 12
> 5 BIG EAST = 80.68 81.22 ( 5) 16
> 6 MISSOURI VALLEY = 79.91 79.63 ( 7) 10
>--------------- Ding-dong-the-Pacific-witch-is-dead -------------
> 7 MOUNTAIN WEST = 79.89 79.71 ( 6) 9
> 8 PACIFIC-10 = 78.37 78.55 ( 8) 10

Tell us Pac-10 types something we don't know. We'll be lucky if half
of the teams are in either tournament in March.

But that's the good thing about basketball; unlike football, they
don't penalize the "mid-majors" when it comes time to handing out the
postseason TV money.
Conference $/school
1 Big 10 1,237,500
2 Big 12 1,216,300
3 ACC 1,093,300
4 Pac-10 1,049,600
5 Southeast 997,700
6 Big East 799,500
7 Conference USA 601,300
8 West Coast 369,000
Dollar values are approximate and are based on (a) the NCAA's
announcement that there is $122,800,000 to be divided and (b) the
assumption that the money is divided equally among the schools in that
conference. Note that the NCAA budget rules say that wins by a team
that switches conferences count towards the conference it was in at
the time, and not the one it just joined.

-- Don