My top 8 conference rankings so far:
1. SEC - I guess I have to put them here for now but it won't last. Inflated rankings just like in football. Auburn being ranked 18th for example is highly debatable having won 0 big games. Bama has one decent win (great win over Gonzaga) but also lost to Iona and has played nobody else. Should they actually be labeled a top 10 team already? Kentucky has played one real team (Duke) and lost. The whole conference is just so overvalued in both football and basketball and teams are given the benefit of the doubt for no reason.
2. Big East - 3 out of 11 teams are arguably top 15 (Nova, UCONN, Seton Hall) and three more in the top 50. They crushed the B10 in the Gavvit Games and are leading the Big 12 in that challenge. 8 of the 11 teams have top 25 level wins including many top 10 wins in the league (Seton Hall has two, Marquette one, . Only Georgetown and DePaul are teams that won't have a realistic tourney hope. Other conferences might have a similar number of top 25 teams but then they have a basement of 5 or 6 awful teams, which the Big East just doesn't have. Should be a 7 bid league, which is the equivalent of like 10 or 11 bids for the ACC. This league is just a gauntlet having to play everybody twice. Georgetown being an embarrassment is saving everyone else's bacon.
3. Big Ten - Beat the ACC, has several teams that will feel they can win in March despite varying success thus far (Purdue, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan State).
4. Big Twelve - Four top 30ish teams but not a whole lot after that.
T-5. Pac 12 - Three teams ranging somewhere from good to elite (Arizona, USC, UCLA). Dumpster fire after that.
T-5. ACC - Duke seems to be the real deal, a couple teams seem to have a chance to improve to top 25 level, but the majority of the conference is either mediocre or bad. Will be fascinating to see who separates themselves from the middle pack and can join the national picture. Hopefully we can. The league has a lot more "solid" teams than the Pac12 so it will probably end up being better in the long run despite a brutal out of conference performance.
7. West Coast Conference - Similar to the ACC at the top but not much beyond Gonzaga, BYU, and St. Mary's. Could be a surprise 3 bid league depending on how it shakes out. St Mary's would be the third, and they do have three *decent* wins against Notre Dame, Oregon, and Utah St. Will need two sneak two wins out of their 4 or 5 total games against BYU and the Zags to get in the dance.
8. A10 - St. Bonaventure is decent. Dayton is one of the most confusing teams in the country having beaten Kansas, Miami, and Northern Illinois, but losing to Lipscomb and Austin Peay. URI did beat BC twice but that's not saying much and they also lost to Tulsa and FGCU. Definitely a down year for the conference overall but still a top tier mid major full of schools with basketball crazy fanbases.