I totally agree. All this talk about "manipulating the NET ranking" doesn't help either.
Seth Greenberg and Jay Williams on ESPN bring this up constantly and always use it as a way to slight the Big XII. But those guys are hugely biased towards the ACC.
Not a huge Bilas fan, he's fine. But he went off on the non-con metric last night with regards to Pitt not getting in. And while Pitt wouldn't be my example, I think he was spot on otherwise.
Weird that a couple of ACC guys are bad mouthing Iowa State and the Big 12 when in reality the bottom half of that conference is garbage. There are way too many data points over the last 5-7 years showing that the Big 12 is consistently the premier basketball conference. If the show was on the other foot they would 100% be defending the ACC and their weak OOC schedule because these teams are challenged night in night out. JFC 10-15 years ago the B1G and ACC benefited form this like crazy.