I love the basketball excuse for Yewt apologists like this from the Desnews yewt beat writer: "The cold hard truth is some of the current members of the Utah basketball team aren't good enough to play in the Pac-12".
That is their go to excuse.
Seriously, that is what you've got for as an explantation?

That begs the question, where then would they be good enough to play college ball? Certainly not the MAAC where the league champion is good enough to get in without an auto bid. Same with the MWC, the WCC etc...

The article makes it sound like the yewts climbed up from the lowly 4-bid Mountain West and were stunned by the high level of competition in the PAC 10.2.

Wow.