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Next up: A long offseason

Marquette
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Marquette
Scrimmage
Date/Time: Oct 4, 2025
TV: NA
Schedule for 2024-25
New Mexico
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Marcus92

If Kem Pomeroy is right, this season will again illustrate exactly what it means to be in a power conference. (And there is no question that the Big East is a basketball power conference, ranking third after the ACC and Big 12.) A few statistics:

• Just 6 conferences — the ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac 10 and SEC, representing 21% of all Division I programs — account for 92% of the Top 25 teams in the country (23 out of 25).

• Those power conferences also include 78% of the Top 50 teams (39 out of 50) and 65% of the Top 100 teams (65 out of 100).

• 20 of the 32 conferences — representing 68% of all Division I programs (237 out of 351 schools) — don't include a single Top 50 team. Of those, 12 conferences don't include a Top 100 team.

We'll see how those predictions hold up as the season goes along. But the difference between the haves and have-nots in college basketball has never been clearer.

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MUFlutieEffect

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I'd actually take it a step further, particularly in regards to your Top 100 comment:  The six conferences you note have 75 schools, meaning ~87% of them are in the Top 100.
The Flutie Effect: "A significant and positive correlation between a university having a successful team and higher quality of incoming freshmen, alumni donations, and graduation rates."

- The Economist, January 3rd, 2007

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