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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4959402, member: 1969"]
[B]Results

Q1 Win% / Q2/Q3/Q4 / Overall[/B]

Big 12 = .344 / .550 / .960 / .957 (.801)
ACC = .278 / .632 / .757 / .944 (.722)
SEC = .351 / .576 / .840 / .932 (.720)
MwC = .375 / 619 / .727 / ,811 (.704)

[B]Q1+Q2 Win %[/B]
Big 12 = .429 (21-28)
ACC = .400 (22-33)
MWC = .513 (20-19)
SEC = .457 (32-38)

[B]Quality Wins vs bad Losses[/B]
Big 12 = 21 vs 5   (last year 30 vs 2)
ACC = 22 vs 13   (last year 21 vs 18)
MwC = 20 vs 19 (last year 20 vs 19)
SEC = 32 vs 9 (last year 31 vs 11)

Lots to unravel here.
- First thing to note and its not conference specific, but look on those Q1 win%... they are all bad.   It's not a calculation issue -- its just because there are many games where you go on the road where the result for you is a Q1 and the result for the other team is Q2.    And road teams tend to lose those games.

- MWC has the best overall win% in Q1+Q2 games.  So they actually do well when their top teams play others.   Even though a decent % of are the top teams in smaller conferences.   The MWC does also by far have the most bad losses.    There are some bad teams in that league to gang on.    But I think a top team in this conference is a legit mid-level seed in the tournament.

- The Big 12.   So they don't dominate in this regard.     They are behind the SEC... and while they are ahead of the ACC its not significant.    If you look at last year they had 30 quality wins with 10 teams... this year its only 21.    Whether they played the "Q4" game or not, it was irrelevant as they did great in quality games.   Not so this year.

They get helped by avoiding bad losses.

- The ACC - in terms of the comparable to last year, they reduced their bad losses by a fair bit, where last year many teams beyond the drek screwed up this year its largely limited to Louisville, Notre Dame and FSU   They do get hurt by a bad Q3 win% (relatively).

- The SEC has been one of the best conferences for at least 3 years.   Hate them or not from a football perspective, they do schedule harder than the other conferences in basketball.   And they are performing the best amongst the 3 P6 I looked at.
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