Conference rankings for last season

The top six (per RealtimeRPI):

Big East

Big 12

Pac-12

SEC

Big Ten

ACC

That is a little interesting. First off, good for the Beast! making the grade over all the football schools. The best conference was the one where basketball matters most. Second, it looks like the Pac-12 is on the road to recovery since it made the top half, and that is good for college basketball. We need a west coast presence.

The conference with the current malady is the Big Ten, which had been consistently among the best. And what has happened to the vaunted ACC? I thought basketball was king there. Maybe they have gotten so big that the bottom feeders are pulling them down. Notice that the top two conferences are the ones who deliberately stayed small (ten or less). The SEC is still struggling, despite the high-profile coaching talent that has been brought in.

The best of the rest was the AAC. SBC was 14th, which is pretty good for us. The two on the bottom were the two HBCU conferences, SWAC and MEAC. And things are not going to get any better for them after COVID knocked everything in the head.