I like his points here
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2700986
The Missouri Valley Conference does not have a single quality win this season. Let me say that again: The Missouri Valley Conference does not have a single quality win this season. That is because conferences do not -- and should not -- get credit for wins; the individual teams should.
Wichita State, Southern Illinois and Missouri State all have quality wins, but those wins should not be attributed to the conference to bolster all teams. Each team should be evaluated individually on its own merit, factoring in that team's play and that team's play only. The same goes for any and all conferences (I just used the MVC to get your attention). The ACC hasn't won a single big game, either. Neither has the Big East or the SEC. Teams in those leagues have had big wins individually, but those wins say absolutely nothing about the rest of the teams in those leagues.
If Wichita State beats LSU and Syracuse, it doesn't make Bradley a better team. By the same token, if Bradley gets drilled at Michigan State, it does not make Missouri State any less of a good team. When Florida State beat Florida, Maryland got no better or worse as a team. It just doesn't work that way, and it never has.
We need to get away from all of the conference talk and conference bragging, and just talk about individual teams. At the end of the year, that is what it is all about -- individual teams -- so we might as well talk about it that way now.
