Charlotte won the CBI. The NIT semifinals has North Texas in one bracket and UAB in the other. It could be that two teams out of 32 from many conferences from C-USA could be playing for the championship. One of 65, or however many it is now, invited to the NCAA, including 7,8,and 9 teams from other conferences was FAU and it is in the sweet 16. Five B12 teams have fallen, the B10 has dropped what 8 teams out and have just one team left. C-USA had just one team. Still playing. I figure what, around 25 teams from the big5 have lost already. But the NCAA tournament decided that more power teams were needed. More than half of the field was from the big5. Of the 16 teams left, half of them aren't from a big5 conference. On the first big day of games, ten games were played. None of them pitted big5 teams playing another big5 team. Four games pitted non big5 teams against each other. Automatically, four non big five teams will be gone. Number of big5 teams automatically eliminated-none. There were 6 games with big5 teams playing nons. Three big5 teams won and three non big5 teams won. Sixteen games were played the next day. Four games were big5 v big5. Two games between nons. Ten games were big5 versus non big 5 teams. The big 5 won 8 of these and lost 2. So after two days, here is the automatically dropped numbers because one had to lose. Big 5 had played big 5 teams four times and non big 5 had played had played six. Big 5 versus non big 5 teams totalled 11 wins and 5 wins for the nons. Keep in mind that each time a non team wins itis an enormous upset. The whole seeding process is a set up for the bigs to win.
So, UAB will be the flagship of the new C-USA. Potential winner of the NIT. Liberty will be a power in the east. Kennesaw State will hold their own and Sam can play well enough to make post season play. Western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee are fine. The core of the conference will be as strong as any of the nons-other than the mwc and aac and the aac will be a shell of what it is now. NMSU will be trying to pick up the remains of their program. UTEP is unknown, but looks to be a bottom feeder at the moment. FIU will probably be about the same as it is and LA Tech will probably look to get better.
Charlotte is gone but Liberty is better.
