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Originally Posted by tk13
Yeah, my point never was that the MVC is consistently as good as the Big 12. This year they're probably closer than a lot of people would like to admit though. And I think that happens every year, there's a conference or two that legitimately is pretty talented that gets shafted for some .500ish teams from a conference like the Big 12. If a team like a Nebraska gets in over someone like Southern Illinois it would be pretty disgusting, regardless of what the Big XII homers here say. Sometimes the reason there aren't as many of those upset stories is because a "smaller" conference only gets a team or two in the tournament. The MVC is usually pretty good anyway but this year has been a pretty special year for them, I hope they get rewarded. The MAC had a year like this a few years back and only got one team in, Kent State, and they almost made it to the Final Four.
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Your being a bit overly paranoid this year. The power conferences as a whole are way down. There are plenty of bids available for both the Big XII *AND* the MVC to get at least 4 teams in. Most years the power conferences have so many strong teams that opportunities become hard to find, but this year the MVC is actually better than the PAC 10 top-to-bottom, and better than the Big XII as a whole after giving Texas, KU, and OU a nod.
The bracketologists at ESPN are spookily accurate, and they have declared that the MVC has a 3-team lock, a 4th team almost at a lock, and 2 more teams in the hunt. A 5th bid is not out of the question for MVC. It definitely is out of the question for the Big XII, barring a shock in the conference Tourney.