Once you start looking outside of the Power 6, a team’s at-large odds typically decrease significantly. Naturally, exceptions to this assumption exist, and more often than not, the Atlantic 10, Mountain West, and West Coast conferences have multiple teams in contention for one of the 36 open spots come March. In this post, I’ll look at the non-conference schedules of 15 possible contenders from this trio of leagues.
Teams appear in schedule rank order within the conference. The number in parentheses is the team's four-year pythagorean win percentage ranking out of 351 Division I teams. (Explanation is in the intro to this series.