This popped up in my news feed today. Watchstadium.com (parent of the CUSA Network and a bunch of other conference networks) polled CUSA basketball coaches & assistants to rank the schools in the conference on a number of different factors. They describe it as ranking the coaching job itself, but that's a pretty good proxy for the program as a whole.

Rice came in at #10 out of 14 schools. No surprises in the breakdown - the only areas where we even ranked in the top half were Geographical Recruiting Base (#4) and Budget/Resources (#7).

Quote:Where they win: “Academics, a great campus in Houston and the ability to recruit nationally. There’s plenty of kids within a stone’s throw.” – C-USA head coach

The knock: “While there are a ton of kids in the area, Rice can’t recruit a ton of them due to their academic requirements. They are basically an Ivy league school playing in C-USA.” – C-USA assistant coach

https://watchstadium.com/news/conference...1-30-2018/