The nine survivors are #25 Temple, #33 Austin Peay, #42 Denver, #43 UCF, #48 Xavier, #54 Lafayette, #59 Gonzaga, #61 NIU, and #64 BYU.

Compare to, say, 2009-2010, where the non-power conferences had three in the top 16 (Temple, New Mexico, and Butler) and 28 in the top 64.  And RPI is MORE important in HD than it is in real life.

If you just look at who makes the NT?  Well, the real-life NCAAs had fourteen schools make it.