what other conference can say their 11th best team made it to the sweet 16?
Lenny Robbins or Zags may need to hire you as his ghost writer.
Definitely a more positive spin than saying the conference's best team couldn't make it out of the first weekend
Yes definitely a more positive spin than saying a conference's best team couldn't make it out of the first weekend, but an argument could be made that UCONN is the best team in the conference, they in fact won the conference tournament. But by that same argument they would say Marquette is actually tied for being the fifth best team in the conference.
All prerequisites aside, I still think the big east is the best basketball conference in the country.