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so if Southern Illinois or Winthrop win the whole thing, the MVC or Big South conferences are the best in the nation???

Southern Illinois has a [censored] good chance this year... wouldn't mind seeing them pull it out!

I never said that, I said the big 12 has the best chance of winning because they have 3 heavyweights. The acc has 1 heavyweight and 6 middleweights. The Big 10 got 6 in last year, had only 3 to make the round of 32, and none of them made the sweet 16. It sure as hell doesnt make them look like a good conference when that happens. Everyone knows that the major conferences have the best teams but if they arent winning games in the tournament, it doesnt make them look like they deserved to get over half the conference into the field.

As a fan of a team thats made the tournament 23 straight years, I dont give a rats arse about making it, its what you do once you get into it. If the Pac 10 has a bad tournament, everyone on here will be the first to let me know about it. The ncaa tournament doesnt measure the depth of your conference, but it will generally show that the powerhouses from certain conferences are better than the powerhouses from other conferences when comparing apples to apples.

head-to-head ACC v.s. (fill in conference here)...ACC wins every time, ask the Big Ten

this year, best chances of titles go to:
first, big 12, UT, KU, and TAMU can all win it all.
second, big east, GU is flat out awesome, playing awesome at the right time. guard play wins titles, unless you are playing against jeff green and roy hibbert.
then its the big 10, consin and osu have talent, but both will choke, no big ten team in the final four.
then its the acc, carolinas there only hope, and carolina sucks inside, and they are in georgetowns bracket.

I have georgetown in the title game

my final four:
KU
UF
GU
TAMU

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head-to-head ACC v.s. (fill in conference here)...ACC wins every time, ask the Big Ten

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Surely thats not the best response you could have come up with. Where did I say that the ACC wasnt the best conference? I just dont believe their chances of cutting down the nets are as good as the big 12's, thats all I said.

And btw, the top 7 in the pac 10 would push the top 7 in the acc to the limit. Stanford is the 6th place team and beat your 2nd best team in their building. No I never said the Pac 10 was better nor did I say the big east or big 12 was better. Point blank, there is very little difference top to bottom between the top conferences.

even with all the bad luck and loss of stars, the big east is still good.

college basketbal is vastly approaching NFL-realm parity, and it doesnt always help the game.

Absolutely, although I think we all should feel lucky to see a guy like Durant be able to play at least one year of college ball. Hopefully they will be able to change that rule and make it a 2 year rule like the nfl has.

kevin durant is the best college player i have ever seen in my life, no exaggeration.

i can just imagine he is doing what kobe or lebron would have done in college.

this is the best class I have ever seen, the top five or six freshman this year could beat half of the nba teams.
greg oden at c
brandon wright at pf
kevin durant at sf
wayne ellington at sg
dj augustin at pg

there's some more good freshmen too...Arthur from KU is pretty dang good