Funny you say that...
My son goes to Saint Louis U.
I watch A-10 games - I've seen almost every SLU game this year.
There are a bunch of decent teams in the conference. Not many good ones.
For Dayton to be 3rd says quite a bit, in my opinion.
I watched them slaughter SLU last night.
NU played (and beat) Dayton a couple days after Dayton lost their point guard (their 2nd best player) for the season. So that result is biased in NU's favor.
I watched first-place Richmond beat SLU recently. I was expecting full court action from Richmond. What I got was somebody playing old school, running much of their offense thru a 7 foot guy standing at the free throw line. Motion, screens, backdoor cuts. SLU was defenseless.
St. Joe's lost at Kentucky in OT, but beat Villanova and Princeton.
UMass beat South Florida (American conference champ).
Lowly SLU gave Utah State (Mountain West leader) a game and beat Wyoming.
VCU beat Penn State, lost by 4 to Boise and had Iowa State down 10 with 6 minutes to play, before losing.
There are quality players in that league. Quite a few have shown up in the Big Ten and outplayed the highly-recruited guys.
The big problem faced by the A-10 is that their rosters get destroyed and they have to rebuild every year. If people think NU is disadvantaged by NIL and the transfer rules, most of the mid-majors have it much much worse.
