Not sure if it was posted on JJ anywhere, but Pomeroy had a brief blog post about the BE tournament that said
"The Big East has been unfairly maligned this year basically because, from what I can tell, it doesn’t have enough teams... Get three or four more teams into your league. Maybe you get another bid or two, and that’s what the national media tends to value when judging conferences."
Adding St. Louis and Dayton, for argument's sake, would help this league by increasing the odds for 5+ bids. It would also help to have a few thousand additional die hards attending the BE tournament.