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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4219618, member: 1969"]
The Big East had 11 teams in the 2011 tournament.
Only one made the elite 8 (that school shall remain nameless!)
Only two of the 11 made the sweet 16, and they each had to be beat a Big East team in round 2 to make it.
It was not a successful tournament for the Big East except for that unnamed team.

The Big East got 11 teams that year for the same reason the Big Ten got 9 this year.   Its top or middle teams as a whole did really well in out of conference play, and its worse teams didn't do stupid things like losing a bunch of bad games.

Also need to remember that its the Big East (16 team days), the BIG (14 teams), and the ACC (15 teams) are those that have had seasons with large numbers in the tournament.     The metrics have been really good for the B12 and the Newer Big East in recent years as well but as 10 team leagues they are never going to get more than 6 or 7 in their good years.

If you follow some of my posts in November and December, I talk about the importance of the "multiplier" effect.    If your teams did good in general before January, or bad in general, it just makes every in conference game start to look better or look worse.   The multiplier effect results in some conferences getting a bunch of Q1 win opportunities (which is the largest determinant of selecting the field) and some not.   There are years it has helped the ACC or the Big East, and there have been years it did not.     But as I noted above this can result in some teams being overseeded and vice versa.

I know I have shown this chart multiple times now, but the level of stupid things the worst 9 teams in the ACC did this year was historically bad.   It just destroyed things for everybody.   The ACC has to many bad teams right now and its middle is not up to par.   Things that don't really impact who does well in March, but certainly will impact who will get to March.

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