Finally, I couldn't resist a little expermentation with the numbers for conferences. In order to do this, for each conference, I used:
1. the conference average round 1 APs
2. the conference W/L percentage
3. the conference OOC W/L percentage
4. the conference average MOAPs
Each conference was given points that were the simple sum of 1-4. Conference rankings depend on what scores are used for the rankings. Here's a sample set of rankings
Avg Accomp. - RD1
Conference
ACC 102.08
Big East 99.35
SEC 96.02
Big-12 92.02
MWC 82.68
Big Ten 82.30
Pac-10 63.87
WAC 57.34
Conference USA 48.93
MAC 33.77
Sun Belt 28.57
Independents 26.21
Conf Pts - RD1
Conference
ACC 327.51
Big East 319.39
Big-12 311.70
SEC 308.27
Big Ten 274.86
MWC 261.52
Pac-10 234.62
WAC 214.11
Conference USA 187.49
Independents 171.66
MAC 155.13
Sun Belt 135.53
Avg Accomp. - RD2
Conference
Big East 104.08
ACC 101.04
SEC 84.00
Big-12 81.78
Big Ten 67.48
Pac-10 59.81
WAC 57.15
MWC 56.55
Independents 46.39
Sun Belt 38.64
Conference USA 37.11
MAC 30.23
The ACC and Big East show up well because they played relatively strong schedules:
Avg Schedule Pts
Conference
ACC 98.12
Big East 91.30
Big-12 85.62
SEC 77.48
Big Ten 73.14
Conference USA 63.46
Pac-10 67.85
Independents 66.19
WAC 63.95
MWC 54.77
MAC 37.65
Sun Belt 31.08

Maria Kirilenko
Ashley Allen



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