Ever since Xavier moved to the Big East and UC hit the AAC, we’ve all been hearing Bearcat fans tell us that the AAC is not a mid-major conference. Sure, the AAC has been around for 9 full basketball seasons and finished above 7th in the KenPom conference rankings exactly once, but that doesn’t dissuade their deluded fans from insisting that it’s a power conference and the teams in it should totally be taken seriously. That has been the refrain from across town since they found out the Big East was moving on without them.
That is all going to change, I think.