Originally Posted by
Alan Bykowski, "brewcity77"
Pomeroy has the ACC third behind the Big 12 and Big 10. The ACC will suffer from the same thing the old Big East suffered from -- too many teams. Yes, they will have 4-6 really good teams, like we usually did, but when you have 4-5 really bad teams, you'll never be rated as favorably as a smaller conference that is solid top-to-bottom.
I still think the best year for the Big East was 1991. 7 out of 9 teams went to the tournament, 6 of those teams won at least one game, 2 teams in the Final Four. And of the 9 teams, Providence had a very good case that it should have been 8 -- The Friars were 19-13 with a 7-9 league record ('Nova got in with a 17-15 record, also 7-9 in league). Providence, however, only played one high-major non-conference game and lost, whereas 'Nova went 3-2 against other non-con high-majors.