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How we rank the top seven conferences in college basketball

It's disrespect season in college basketball. For the next month, coaches throughout college basketball will be complaining about how their league doesn't get enough respect from unnamed bracketologists, pundits and metrics systems, and exclaiming how their conference season has been a crucible just this side of the Battle of Stirling Bridge ("The English are too many!").

Conference commissioners will do the same. Fans will shout angrily into the Twittersphere.

There are, of course, lots of good, objective ways to measure conference strength, and we subscribe to them all. But there's also what we've been watching for the past 3 months, and that's the basis upon which ESPN.