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Originally Posted by CE80 View Post
The problem with pointing to Gonzaga (and Butler) is that the West Coast and Horizon are/were much easier to dominate than the A10. Each of those conferences has only a couple of teams that will ever compete for the top spot. The A10 now has 2 programs (UD and VCU) that spare nothing and a number of other programs that compete enough to mess things up.
Originally Posted by CE80 View Post
The problem with pointing to Gonzaga (and Butler) is that the West Coast and Horizon are/were much easier to dominate than the A10. Each of those conferences has only a couple of teams that will ever compete for the top spot. The A10 now has 2 programs (UD and VCU) that spare nothing and a number of other programs that compete enough to mess things up.
This is 100% correct. Aside from UD/VCU, you have a team like SBU who co-shared A10 last year and will be preseason top 3 (dare I say favorites) in A10 next year. Plus URI is on a consistent upward swing in terms of recruiting, and will project in top 4 for foreseeable future. Pretty much every other team is good enough to win the conference once every 4 years (I.e. in the last couple years St Joe, La Salle, Davidson, SLU, Richmond) have all danced.

In the WCC the conversation is as simple as 'Is St Mary's good enough to beat Zags this year, or do we pencil Gonzaga in at the top again.' Even in their best seasons, no one is thinking Pacific, Loyola Marymount, San Francisco, etc will even have a chance to win it. Unlike the A10 where SBU, URI, UD, VCU and SLU could realistically win the conference the next 5 consecutive years.
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