[jbergey22]

Originally Posted by sterlingice

Man, I wish more people thought this way when talking college hoops. Again, it's one thing in college football where you have such a small sample size. But this is college basketball where everyone has blemishes on the record and it's about who is best built to handle the most different types of teams and situations.

(It's actually what "survival of the fittest" is truly about and not the twisted, warped version people believe today. It's not about the strongest and the biggest, but the most versatile. It's about the creature that's can withstand the most situations that it gets through. It's not, say, the tallest giraffes that can reach the tallest leaves because how often do you run across a tree that only the tallest giraffe can reach but the second tallest can't and thus dies? It's the one that is tall enough to eat from most trees, can withstand, say, a flash flood, is not necessarily the fastest but is faster than the slowest giraffe so it doesn't get eaten by predators, etc)

SI

Indeed! Figuring out how the conferences compare is a huge part of solving this equation.