*Disclaimer: A Mid-Major is an evolving term. At CBB Review we define a mid-major as conferences that send ≤ 20% of their teams to the NCAA tournament in the past five seasons. Or, teams that are ranked in the AP top 25 < 30% of the time in a five-year span. With this under consideration, the power six, the AAC, and Gonzaga were not included for consideration this season’s Under the Radar Top 25.*
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2 thoughts on “CBB Review: Week 11 Under the Radar Top 25”
A good read. Thanks.
But the A10, according to your disclaimer, is not a mid major conference. It is on par with the AAC in terms of NCAA bids and AP rankings over the last several years. Dayton was slated to be a #1 seed last season in the NCAA tournament. If you include the A10 in this ranking, you should include the AAC and Gonzaga. I suggest you use the term “high major” to refer to teams and conferences that are near or on par with power 6 but not power 6, and include AAC teams in this ranking. Maybe even include some Big East teams. Call it a non power 6 ranking. High major basketball conferences would be ranked in the top 10 of the NET and RPI most years. A10 averages around 8 (currently NET 9).
20% of 14 teams = 2.8 NCAA teams per season. Over 5 years = 14 Bids.
2019 – Saint Louis, VCU
2018 – Davidson, St. Bonaventure, Rhode Island
2017 – Rhode Island, VCU, Dayton
2016 – Saint Joseph’s, VCU, Dayton
2015 – VCU, Dayton, Davidson
14 Bids in last 5 tournaments.
30% of 5 years (19 weeks each) = 29 weeks ranked.
2015-16 to 2019-20 – Dayton 20 weeks, URI 12 weeks, VCU 3 weeks, GW 2 weeks. That’s 37 weeks A10 teams have been ranked, out of 95 weeks = 39%
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Thanks for the read and the comment. It is certainly challenging to come up with the best term and definition. Throughout our time working on this we felt this was the best and most evolving definition. We are aware that their is still possible kinks to work out and it gets really sticky when you start dividing teams and conferences into low mid and high major because in the end much of this is always because of money. Your math looks spot on but the A10 would still fall into the mid major category for us. They have sent 20% of teams over the last five seasons which is the cutoff but we are looking at less than or equal to 20%. As for the AP rankings it applies only specifically for each team individually. Only Gonzaga has been ranked more than 30% of the time. Running this math in past years not many programs have made the jump, but Butler and San Diego State would have had times in the past were they wouldn’t have been considered a mid major based on this definition.
We appreciate your feedback and hope you enjoy the site. If you have any suggestions as to what can make our mid major definition better we would be happy to listen and take it into consideration. College Insider and Mid Major Madness both treat this differently as do we so there really isn’t quite a true definition of a mid major.
A good read. Thanks.
But the A10, according to your disclaimer, is not a mid major conference. It is on par with the AAC in terms of NCAA bids and AP rankings over the last several years. Dayton was slated to be a #1 seed last season in the NCAA tournament. If you include the A10 in this ranking, you should include the AAC and Gonzaga. I suggest you use the term “high major” to refer to teams and conferences that are near or on par with power 6 but not power 6, and include AAC teams in this ranking. Maybe even include some Big East teams. Call it a non power 6 ranking. High major basketball conferences would be ranked in the top 10 of the NET and RPI most years. A10 averages around 8 (currently NET 9).
20% of 14 teams = 2.8 NCAA teams per season. Over 5 years = 14 Bids.
2019 – Saint Louis, VCU
2018 – Davidson, St. Bonaventure, Rhode Island
2017 – Rhode Island, VCU, Dayton
2016 – Saint Joseph’s, VCU, Dayton
2015 – VCU, Dayton, Davidson
14 Bids in last 5 tournaments.
30% of 5 years (19 weeks each) = 29 weeks ranked.
2015-16 to 2019-20 – Dayton 20 weeks, URI 12 weeks, VCU 3 weeks, GW 2 weeks. That’s 37 weeks A10 teams have been ranked, out of 95 weeks = 39%
Thanks for the read and the comment. It is certainly challenging to come up with the best term and definition. Throughout our time working on this we felt this was the best and most evolving definition. We are aware that their is still possible kinks to work out and it gets really sticky when you start dividing teams and conferences into low mid and high major because in the end much of this is always because of money. Your math looks spot on but the A10 would still fall into the mid major category for us. They have sent 20% of teams over the last five seasons which is the cutoff but we are looking at less than or equal to 20%. As for the AP rankings it applies only specifically for each team individually. Only Gonzaga has been ranked more than 30% of the time. Running this math in past years not many programs have made the jump, but Butler and San Diego State would have had times in the past were they wouldn’t have been considered a mid major based on this definition.
We appreciate your feedback and hope you enjoy the site. If you have any suggestions as to what can make our mid major definition better we would be happy to listen and take it into consideration. College Insider and Mid Major Madness both treat this differently as do we so there really isn’t quite a true definition of a mid major.