2023-24 college basketball previews, part 5: Missouri Valley, Conference USA, Atlantic 10

Arch Madness, Huntsville Madness, and...uh...Barclays Madness

PREVIOUSLY: Intro: Parallax, Previews Part One, Previews Part Two, Previews Part Three, Previews Part Four.

Hello! This is Part Five of our multi-week conference preview series. Today’s previews cover the Missouri Valley, Conference USA, and the Atlantic 10(+5), which are ordered using KenPom’s conference rankings. We’re now through 23 of the available 32 conferences. How about that!

I’m doing three conferences a day for the next four days, but I do think these three fit together pretty comfortably. All three have a history of serious March impacts. All three have had years where they’ve been a huge story, planting multiple teams in the field and causing havoc left and right. All three have also had some serious lean years, and at least one of these conferences is currently in theirs. All three are most likely one-bid conferences, but chances are that one of them could stumble into a second bid somewhere. Here’s hoping.

Lastly: as has been outlined a few times now, all conference previews from this point forward will be behind a paywall. If you have a financial issue that keeps you from paying the $30/year for the subscription ($20/year for people with .edu emails), let me know and I’m happy to give you a discount. Alternately, I think you can use a free trial for a week or whatever. Just get in touch.

Monday morning basketball! Your fave.