I definitely thought so

Relative to the last few years of Big East anyway. That just means they aren't far and away better than the other conferences though, they are probably equal. I don't think #'s in the last 16 or last 8 in the tournament is a great way to judge this though. It is so much luck, and more so every passing year. It doesn't seem to me that going 2-2 last night really proved much.