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All you are hearing is how many upsets etc have occurred. If you know college basketball it’s true but if you are just a casual fan it’s far from obvious when you look at the sweet sixteen. Twelve of the sixteen teams are still from the big 5 conferences, one from the Big East and Gonzaga. Hardly a bunch of mid majors. Only Nevada from the MWC and Loyola are big surprises.

On the women’s side 13 from the Big 5 and Connecticut fill the 16 slots. Only Buffalo and CMU are riff raff.

There were a lot of upsets but when it’s all said and done the major conferences still dominate. The only difference this year is that the Power 5 teams that made it weren’t the expected ones. That actually strengthens the argument that mid majors shouldn’t get many at large bids.