1) I don't really think so. Only 2 of the 11 teams "outperformed" their seed, a bunch underperformed. If Butler won it wouldn't suddenly make the Horizon League a great league. 2) Only 6 of the last 52 Final Four teams came from conferences outside of the Power 6. One of those was Marquette in '03, when C-USA had a handful of top teams, and another was Memphis in '08. With Coach Cal and his recruiting (legitimate or otherwise) you're never really a mid-major. It's great that more mid-majors are doing well and gaining recognition, but I don't think a team like VCU or Mason making a FF run every few years necessarily ends that notion. I think it's more the fact that particular teams from smaller conferences (Gonzaga/Xavier/Butler/etc.) have been standing out the last several years. That's not to say some power conferences aren't overrated and some mid-major ones aren't underrated.