The BE may have PLAYED a pretty good OOC schedule, but the problem is that they didn’t WIN enough of those games. So the SOS was good, but the conference wins weren’t. If they had won more games against highly ranked OOC opponents, then the wins against conference schools would count for more.

SJU is going to have a hard time improving their seed above a 4 because they won’t be able to play anyone the rest of the year that is ranked higher. All they can hope is that some of the higher ranked teams lose to lower rated schools. Meanwhile, bubble teams from the bigger conferences will have lots of opportunities to impress the committee by beating one of the other top seeds on the list. If the BE only has one of the top 16 ranked schools in the country, it’s going to be very difficult for a team that finishes outside the top 3-4 in the conference to even make the NCAA tourney, what with all the automatic bids from the smaller conferences, and the lack of opportunity to beat a top 16 school between now and then.