(02-02-2020 09:30 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(01-23-2020 10:01 AM)bill dazzle Wrote:  

(01-23-2020 09:57 AM)Gamecock Wrote:  To me the mid majors are anyone outside of the P5 +Big East.

Doesn't mean that Wichita St, Gonzaga, Cincinnati, etc aren't elite level programs, but that's just reality.

It is almost almost impossible to describe Gonzaga, for example, as a "mid-major" and, for example, Northwestern (not to pick on NU) as a "power conference program." It simply makes no sense. Northwestern has been to one NCAA tourney (and that is just one example of the difference between the two programs). Northwestern has the Big Ten as home — and that is basically the only advantage it has on Gonzaga.

If a program is at a high-major level (as Wichita, Gonzaga and Cincy are, and as you correctly suggest), that program is not a "mid-major program," regardless of its league home. That's just how I see it. Others see it differently.

But to be fair if Northwestern played a WCC schedule instead of a B1G schedule the last 20 years they would have had more NCAA bids and if the Zags played a B1G schedule instead of a WCC schedule over the last 20 years they would have had fewer.

Also Northwesterns budget for BBall dwarfs everyone not in the BBall P6.

Are you just trolling again or can provide a legitimate source? I'm going to bet you're just trolling again.