Midmajors...

All Basketball fans know what the Big 6 is. It is the Six Major conferences in college basketball (and basically all sports too). The Six Majors are the Big Ten, Big 12, SEC, ACC, Pac-10, and the Big East.  The NCAA Mens Tournament is suppose to consist of the 64 best teams in the country, but it usually consists of all the Conference Winners along with most at-large bids going to the Big 6. This year the sweet sixteen consists of 11 different conferences and 5 teams who are considered mid-majors. The teams are Northern Iowa, Butler, Xavier, Cornell, and St. Mary's (California).
Many ESPN and CBS analysts give these teams the MidMajor label because history doesnt have them as big time teams. Last year the NCAA committee invited only 4 at large midmajor teams. This year the committee doubled that number to 8 and it has paid off with 5 going to the Sweet Sixteen.
If a teen from the Big 6 (power conferences) go a few games above .500 then they will most likely get a invitation to the Big Dance. For the MidMajors they have to win the Conference or get second or third at worst. And they even have a harder time impressing the Committee because they can't schedule great teams, because the power teams are afraid of losing to this "MidMajors" Many dislike the thought of having MidMajor teams that dont have large fan bases make it far in the dance, and others love the fact that their are some amazing upsets throughout March.
Some teams like Xavier who makes the tournament very often along with Butler shouldn't have the "Midmajor" label, but when asked, they don't mind it because they dont wanna be the team that everyone picks, and they want to be under the radar. But some other teams hate the MidMajor label and want people like us to stop using it to describe their players and conferences. They think that it is disrespectful of the league.
What do you think about the MidMajor label and what it brings to the table?