kenpom rankings of the 4 power conferences currently represented in the Sweet 16:

1. Big Ten
3. ACC
4. Big 12
7. SEC

Who were the other conferences mixed in there:

2. Big East
5. PAC-10
6. MWC
8. Conference USA

Since that season, the first four conferences on this thread took 21 combined teams from the second list of four conferences and expanded from 47 total teams to 68. In the process, they completely decimated those 4 conferences.

They went a combined 6-8 in the tournament after going a combined 17-12 in the first two rounds in 2011 and sent 5 teams to the Sweet 16.

The Big East alone sent 11 teams to the tournament. 6 of those teams are gone to the ACC and Big 12.