I said I don't care what conference they're from, they must be teams that are going to win 17 or more games. The bottom of our schedule was dragging us down. You can schedule teams with great names, but if they go 7-21, it kills you.
We won't know how the conference has weathered this for about another two or three years, maybe four. The top half of our league was very good (this season). The bottom half of our league was not good. That's a fact.
The Missouri Valley Conference bought games. And they all have winning records. Did I (say) that they all played tough teams? No. Look at their non-conference schedules.
This could have been a momentum builder going into the conference tournament, but we couldn't rebound ... If we could have gotten one more rebound in the last five minutes of the game, we could have won.
This is what Conference USA should be in every game and every building. This is a basketball environment.