Strength of schedule is really over rated. All a tough sched does is grind teams down and lower their seed in the tournament. PC would probably get hammered in the old BE, but now they're a fringe top 25 team and playing for NCAA bid.
Our sched this year is perfect. Very few gimmes, not a ton of killer games, but there are a bunch of games you can lose if you don't play well. That's all you need. If you're good, you'll get a lot of wins, you'll get tested, and you aren't gonna take any unnecessary losses.