At the end of the day, ESPN's job is to get ratings. Major conference teams(unless it's the blue bloods) don't drive those ratings. FAU was THE Cinderella story last year. Heck, they got into the Jimmy V game based on last year's tournament alone. Who doesn't root for the "little guy". If they weren't playing us, I would have been in FAU's corner. What makes the tournament so much fun, especially the first day of it? It's the upsets. So, while FAU is ranked highly and highly thought of....it's still FAU and they'll continue to the the story, until that story runs out of steam, which will be when they get into conference play. They'll probably run the table(or come close to), they'll win 30+ games, but rarely will they get more than the standard top 25 highlight.